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what would you like to have scripted
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1/18/12 10:29 AM
The last couple of weeks I have been refreshing and expanding my Perl knowledge by writing some common code to interface with an UCS environment. So far it has been more excersise than usefull. I am asking mysef now: what would be usefull in real life? As a consultant I usually only deploy systems and be done with it so no day to day operations. Which tasks do you see which are be done via the gui but are repetitive and could be scripted?
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RE: what would you like to have scripted
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1/18/12 9:33 PM as a reply to EELCO NIEUWSTAD.
Just the basic ones to get a new UCS off the ground:

- Resource Pools
-- MACS
-- WorldWide Names
-- WorldWide PortNames
-- iSCSI IP addresses
-- Management IP addresses
-- Host pools based on the type of server

- Policies
-- vNICs Profiles
-- vHBS Profiles
-- QoS
-- Boot Policies
-- Typical VLANS. Ones we see for VMware: management, NFS, VM Traffic

Once all the pieces are in place its easy to go through and assign them.
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RE: what would you like to have scripted
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2/6/12 11:25 AM as a reply to EELCO NIEUWSTAD.
Adding few more ones which could help in same

Available Service Profiles/Templates
Associated/Unassociated Profiles
Server/uplink/FCoE/unconfigured ports
Available Server Pools
Organizational segregation of above objects
vNIC/vHBA Templates

and many more depending on the requirements
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