Cisco Confidential 1 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Load Presentation onto my communities page  Start UCSPE (Make sure it is at factory)  Open UCSM GUI  VPN to CMI Lab  RDP to TechEd2014 (Make sure names are at default)  Open PowerGUI  Open Scripts:  Add-UcsVlans.ps1  Add-UcsDomain.ps1  Data-Laptop Emulator.ps1  New-UcsFcZoning.ps1  !TechEd-Manual-UCStoWindowsNicName v ps1 Pre-Session Check-List

Cisco UCS PowerTool Joe Martin Consulting Systems Engineer, CCIE #5917 TechEd 2014 An introduction to PowerShell automation for Cisco UCS

Cisco Confidential 3 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  UCSM…What is it?  What is PowerTool  Where to download  How to download  How to install  How to learn to use  Sample and example scripts  Q&A – Along the way (Don’t be shy!) Agenda Link to slides at end of presentation

Cisco Confidential 4 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCSM = Programmatic Infrastructure = SDC (Software Defined Compute) XML API  UCS Manager is an API not a GUI or CLI…but it has those  Comprehensive XML API, standards-based interfaces  Bi-Directional access to physical & logical internals System Status Physical Inventory Logical Inventory Direct Customer Custom- Self Serve portals Management Tools Auditing Tools 3 rd Party System Center- SCOM/VMM/Orch PowerShell

Cisco Confidential 5 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. PowerShell modules for Cisco UCS Servers Available for UCS managed systems and stand-alone C-Series PowerTool for UCSM is automatically generated by our XML schema Free to download from PowerTool for UCSM contains 1866 cmdlets Can do 100% of UCSM with PowerTool Follows Microsoft best practices Easy to learn how to use…I promise! What is PowerTool

Cisco Confidential 6 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Hardware  VLANs, LAN Uplink, SAN Uplink, Server, Appliance Ports, Port Channels, etc.  Pools  Servers, UUID, MAC, IP, WWPN, WWNN, iSCSI, etc.  Policies  BIOS, Firmware, Adapters, Boot, Drives, etc.  Templates  vNIC, vHBA, Service Profile Templates, etc.  Reporting  vNIC Statistics, vHBA Statistics, Thermal, Resources, etc. Depth of PowerTool Capabilities

Cisco Confidential 7 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Go to  Log in using your CCO credentials  If you don’t have credentials it’s easy to register  Select ‘Support’ then ‘All Downloads’  In Find type: PowerTool and select ‘Cisco UCS Management Partner Ecosystem Software’  Click on ‘Unified Computing System (UCS) PowerTool’  Select ‘Cisco IMC PowerTool pack for Powershell’ for Stand-Alone C-Series or ‘Cisco PowerTool pack for Powershell’ for UCSM  Select ‘Download’ Downloading

Cisco Confidential 8 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Launch installer  Next>  Accept license agreement, Next>  Install Location, Next>  Install  Accept UAC  Finish Installing PowerTool

Cisco Confidential 9 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Import-Module CiscoUcsPs  Load module  Get-Command -Module CiscoUcsPs | Out-File.\CiscoUcsPs_Cmdlets.txt  List of cmdlets  Get-Command -Module CiscoUcsPs | Measure-Object  How many cmdlets  Get-Help -full Using PowerTool

Cisco Confidential 10 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Open UCSM GUI  Import-Module CiscoUcsPs  Enter ConvertTo-UcsCmdlet in a PowerShell session  This cmdlet will run forever till stopped  Do something in the UCSM GUI and hit ‘Save’  Watch your PowerShell session now  First time is a bit slow to produce output…be patient  Will see the PowerShell for that UCSM configuration Easy to Learn Demo

Cisco Confidential 11 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Log into a UCSM domain $cred = Get-Credential $myucs = read-host “Enter UCSM Hostname or IP” $mycon = Connect-Ucs -Name $myucs -Credential $cred #do your thing Disconnect-Ucs Log into multiple UCSM domains $multilogin = Set-UcsPowerToolConfiguration -SupportMultipleDefaultUcs $true $cred = Get-Credential $myucs $mycon = Connect-Ucs -Name $myucs -Credential $cred #do your thing Disconnect-Ucs Logging into UCSM

Cisco Confidential 12 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  From our learning on ConvertTo-UcsCmdlet we got  Get-UcsLanCloud | Add-UcsVlan -CompressionType "included" - DefaultNet "no" -Id 99 -McastPolicyName "" -Name "test" - PubNwName "" -Sharing "none" }  Strip down to what we need  Get-UcsLanCloud | Add-UcsVlan -Id 99 -Name "test“  Script it  $VLANList = Import-Csv “.\VLANList.csv“  foreach ($item in $VLANList)  {Get-UcsLanCloud | Add-UcsVlan -Id $item.VLAN -Name $item.Name} Bringing it Together Demo

Cisco Confidential 13 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Build a complete UCS in just a few minutes  Answer file based = repeatable, consistent  Configures 100% of UCS  Zone your SAN in minutes  Build 5120 zones with aliases across 2 MDS fabrics in 42 minutes  Writes 5120 zones with aliases to file in under 1 minute  Rename your Windows NICs in seconds  Renames physical vNICs and Hyper-V vSwitches Demos Demo

Cisco Confidential 14 © Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  PowerTool Documentation  ols/C-Series/powertools/ucs_powertool_book/ucs_pwrtool_bkl1.pdf ols/C-Series/powertools/ucs_powertool_book/ucs_pwrtool_bkl1.pdf  Forums  nagement/cisco_ucs_developed_integrations nagement/cisco_ucs_developed_integrations  My Script Repository / This slide deck  Resources

Thank you. Joe Martin Consulting Systems Engineer, CCIE #5917 Cisco Systems Tel: Slides and Scripts: /people/joemar/content