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wschaik
in Unified Computing System Discussions
in Unified Computing System Discussions
05-04-2018
06:03 AM
05-04-2018
06:03 AM
The N20-C6508 was the original UCS chassis as launched in 2009. With the UCS Mini in mid 2014, there was a need to provide heartbeat connectivity (L1/L2) between the two 6324 FI's. Instead of running two cables between the FI's, two copper traces were added to the chassis midplane. This became the new UCSB-5108 partnumber.
When using traditional top-of-rack Fabric Interconnects, both chassis models will provide the same functionality. Only for a UCS Mini is it mandatory to use the new chassis and not the original one.
Willem
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wschaik
in Unified Computing System Discussions
in Unified Computing System Discussions
05-04-2018
05:55 AM
05-04-2018
05:55 AM
The N20-C6508 was the original UCS chassis as launched in 2009. With the UCS Mini in mid 2014, there was a need to provide heartbeat connectivity (L1/L2) between the two 6324 FI's. Instead of running two cables between the FI's, two copper traces were added to the chassis midplane. This became the new UCSB-5108 partnumber.
When using traditional top-of-rack Fabric Interconnects, both chassis models will provide the same functionality. Only for a UCS Mini is it mandatory to use the new chassis and not the original one.
Willem
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05-04-2018
05:41 AM
What Walter describes are the EOL/EOS dates of the power supply. Which has very little to do with the UCS chassis itself. Over the years there have been a few updates of the PSU's. One was about adding dual voltage support (both 208 and 110V) and in at least one other case a replacement happened with a more efficient model. Everything always fully backwards compatible.
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wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
12-05-2016
12:54 PM
12-05-2016
12:54 PM
thanks for letting me know, I will take a look and fix it -- Willem van Schaik, UCS Consulting Systems Engineer wschaik@cisco.com +1-403-606-9010 (mobile) . : | : . . : | : . Cisco Systems, Calgary AB, Canada
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wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
11-17-2016
09:07 AM
11-17-2016
09:07 AM
Office2010 should be no problem maybe you can "play around" with the line [ $xlsFile = $PSScriptRoot + "\UcsInventory.xlsx" ] for example replace the $PSScriptRoot variable with a hard coded pathname
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wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
11-16-2016
04:15 PM
11-16-2016
04:15 PM
Sean, the UcsInventory script is a dual stage process. First stage is to collect UCS data from the FI's and then store that in a bunch of .csv files. The second stage is taking this data to create an Excel spreadsheet. My suspicion is that it could have to do with your version of Excel. But tough to say with just the information in your message.
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wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Discussions
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Discussions
10-25-2016
02:54 PM
10-25-2016
02:54 PM
hi Victor, maybe not such a good idea to link to your personal copy of the script, which could soon be outdated latest greatest version of UcsInventory can be found at https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-56414 Willem
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wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
03-04-2015
02:01 PM
03-04-2015
02:01 PM
maybe at the bottom of your page (when in edit mode) you can enable the category “UCS PowerTool” that will take care that the two scripts are seen together
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wschaik
in Unified Computing System Discussions
in Unified Computing System Discussions
02-26-2015
12:33 PM
02-26-2015
12:33 PM
Maybe four years too late :) but I recently wrote and published a PowerShell script, that is exactly doing this: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-56414 Willem
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wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Documents
01-16-2015
01:41 PM
01-16-2015
01:41 PM
This PowerTool script connects to one or more UCS domains querying it/them for hardware details on fabric interconnects, chassis, blades and rackmount servers. Using that information it generates an Excel spreadsheet with one sheet per UCS domain, presenting the inventory in the form of an outline. Besides model, part number, etc. it also lists for each element the serial number and firmware version.
There are a few command line parameters, the most important being '-show' which controls the level of detail you get to see. At level one you see only an overview of chassis's, blades and servers. At two the scripts adds CPUs and memory, then all the way up to five where you will get detailed info on each and every DIMM. The following example is at level three.
July 2018 update. Finally I put in the time to update the script from PowerTool version 1.X to 2.X, which also allows for PowerShell version 3. Sorry it took so long. Another big improvement is the change to using the UCS class "equipmentManufacturingDef" to get better naming and such. By doing that I could remove from the script all the manually created tables (which had to be maintained by hand) that were generating proper CPU names and similar stuff. The result is still not perfect but that is because the UCS DOM is after nine years more than a little messy.
Couple of technical things to be aware of. You need to have Microsoft Office installed on the system running the script. Also, don't install the script in C:\ because for some reason the script doesn't have write access there, put it instead in some user directory. This script will store the data retrieved from UCS Manager in a bunch of csv-files in "C:\Temp". Finally there is the '-v' flag with which you can follow the progress of the script.
A fork of this script will fetch an inventory of C-Series and E-Series servers that are not managed by UCS-Manager. You can get it at https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-57125 .
Willem van Schaik
< wschaik@cisco.com >
Calgary, Jan 2015, Jul 2018
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Created by
wschaik
in Unified Computing System Discussions
05-04-2018
05-04-2018
The N20-C6508 was the original UCS chassis as launched in 2009. With the
UCS Mini in mid 2014, there...
Created by
wschaik
in Unified Computing System Discussions
05-04-2018
05-04-2018
The N20-C6508 was the original UCS chassis as launched in 2009. With the
UCS Mini in mid 2014, there...
05-04-2018
What Walter describes are the EOL/EOS dates of the power supply. Which
has very little to do with th...
12-05-2016
thanks for letting me know, I will take a look and fix it--Willem van
Schaik, UCS Consulting Systems...
11-17-2016
Office2010 should be no problemmaybe you can "play around" with the line
[ $xlsFile = $PSScriptRoot ...
11-16-2016
Sean, the UcsInventory script is a dual stage process. First stage is to
collect UCS data from the F...
Created by
wschaik
in Cisco Developed UCS Integrations Discussions
10-25-2016
10-25-2016
hi Victor,maybe not such a good idea to link to your personal copy of
the script, which could soon b...
03-04-2015
maybe at the bottom of your page (when in edit mode) you can enable the
category “UCS PowerTool”that...
02-26-2015
Maybe four years too late :) but I recently wrote and published a
PowerShell script, that is exactly...
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