My Personal Blog
API’s are hot ! You can automate almost anything you like. If you want to automate Hyperflex you can use UCS Director (See this blog) or you can write something yourself. There is a page at the Hyperflex cluster with a rest explorer build in. Not only the schema, or requests, but also the output … Read more
UCS Director It’s an automation tool. Not only for Cisco UCS servers, but also for networking, hypervisors and storage. Today I wanted to automate our FlashStack which contains storage of PureStorage with the UCS Director. When configuring UCS Director, I noticed I had to create a WWNN pool at the UCS Manager. After configuring, the UCS … Read more
Automate Hyperflex with UCS Director 6.0 ! The software is available on the Cisco web site : www.cisco.com/go/software In a short video I will show you a working setup with a HX Cluster and UCS Director 6.0. Not only can you monitor the Hyperflex Cluster, but also configure and automate it with workflows. Cisco … Read more
Not only the Cisco devices, but also third party devices like the EMC VNX 5500. But when I tried to add the VNX to the UCS-D system, I received an error and had a problem… Howto fix this. Gladly there is some good documentation after a good search. 😉
Here’s a video I created with the solution.
If you don’t like watching a 5 minute video, here is an old fashion blog. 😉
Right now I am testing an UCS Director system with some workflows and some nice API’s. Ofcourse not everything is going smooth. And right now I hit the problem that I don’t have any free IP addresses in a pool. Everything got the state “Reserved“, although the system are not using them. Here is the … Read more