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This UCS PowerShell script allows you to enter a list of UCS domains and have the script log into all of them and present you with a GUI interface of a list of all service profiles in all UCS domains in alphabetical order and then select and launch K...

This UCS Powershell script is a framework I use for creating new Powershell scripts for UCS.  It does all the heavy lifting of getting logged into a UCS with error checking and then has a place where you paste your custom script code so you can easil...

This is a video recorded and presented at Microsoft Management Summit 2013.  The video demonstrates new features of version 2.6 of the UCS management pack for SCOM 2012/2012 SP1, highlighting the new UCS Management Service, a service which provides S...

A White Paper was published to describe the process for locating, extracting, and preparing C-Series Rack Server drivers for use in Microsoft Windows Deployment Services for Windows 2008. The White Paper can be downloaded here:http://www.cisco.com/en...

A White Paper was developed to describe the process for locating, extracting, preparing, and then injecting Cisco UCS C-Series Rackserver drivers into the Altiris default Windows x64 Preboot Image (based on WinPE 2.1 / Windows 2008).The White Paper i...

Altiris Deployment Solution from Symantec helps reduce the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, and notebooks from a centralized location in your environment. The solution offers OS deployment, configuration, PC "personality" migration, ...

Detailed in the video below is a joint PowerShell integration utilizing both Cisco UCS PowerTool and VMware PowerCLI.  The goal of the integration is to show how easy it is in PowerShell to integrate across different functional areas within a virtual...

Following the best practices outlined in the whitepaper, Citrix XenDesktop: Best Practices with Cisco UCS (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135305), a Windows PowerShell script was written to automate the creation and configuration of many of the...

At Microsoft Management Summit 2013, Eric Williams and Jason Shaw delivered a presentation providing an overview over Cisco UCS PowerTool, integration of Cisco UCS with Microsoft Windows 2012 DHCP, DNS, and WDS demonstrating Bare Metal Windows 2012 i...

Detailed in the video below is a joint PowerShell integration utilizing both Cisco UCS PowerTool and VMware PowerCLI.  The goal of the integration is to show how easy it is in PowerShell to integrate across different functional areas within a virtual...

One of the great things about UCS Manager is that you have complete access to the Management Information Tree (configuration management database) for a UCS domain that can scale to 160 servers.  Integrators can use the client integration technology o...

Physical inventory management is always a challenge.    Most people might use spreadsheets.   But spreadsheets don't really scale well, nor do they capture multiple relationships and factors (row, rack, slots, equipment type, network port mgmt, equip...