Automate your Infrastructure: Programmatic Management of Cisco UCS with Microsoft System Center and PowerShell BRKCOM-1004

Ike Kent and Jason Shaw

Technical Marketing Engineers

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Agenda

What is Cisco UCS’s Programmatic Infrastructure?

What toolkits are available for Cisco UCS automation development?

– Demo: Cisco UCS PowerTool

– Demo: Cisco UCS PowerTool – Firmware Upgrade

– Demo: Automating OS Deployments

Monitoring Cisco UCS with Operations Manager

– Demo: Monitoring Cisco UCS with the Cisco UCS Management Pack from Operations

Managing Cisco UCS with Virtual Machine Manager

– Demo: Managing Cisco UCS from the Cisco UCS UI Extension for Virtual Machine Manager

Automating tasks for Cisco UCS with Orchestrator

Demo: Service Profile Fail-over

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What is Cisco UCS’s Infrastructure?

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Cisco Unified Computing System

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Cisco UCS I/O Adapters

Cisco UCS Blade and Rack Servers (Cut through interfaces to CIMC)

Serial over LAN, KVM, IPMI

Cisco UCS Blade Server Chassis

Cisco UCS I/O Modules

Cisco UCS Manager UCS Manager GUI and CLI

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects SNMP, Syslog, SMTP, SMASH, CLP,

CIM XML, Smart Call Home

LAN/SAN Uplinks

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Programmatic Infrastructure

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XML API

Direct UCS CLI UCS GUI 3rd Party Customer

Self Serve portals

Management Tools

Auditing Tools

System Status

Physical Inventory

Logical Inventory

Comprehensive XML API

Single point of management – access to all domain knowledge

Broad 3rd party integration support

Faster custom integration for customer use cases

Consistent data and views across ALL interfaces

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UCS Service Profiles

LAN

SAN

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orgOrg topSystem

computeBlade •assignedToDn

topRoot

equipmentChassis

Service Profile Creation

vnicFcIf

vnicFc

vnicEthIf

vnicEth

lsServer

pnDn

lsBinding

pnDn

vnicFc

vnicEthIf

vnicEth

vnicFcIf

lsPower

DB

MIT

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What UCS toolkits are available for Cisco UCS automation?

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Cisco Developer Network

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Developer Community developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/home

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE)

Cisco UCS PowerTool PowerShell Library

Demo: Cisco UCS PowerTool

Downloads UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE)

goUCS Automation Tool

Cisco UCS Powertool (PowerShell Module)

XML API, PowerShell code examples

Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for Cisco UCS

Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for Cisco UCS

Microsoft SCVMM UI Extension for Cisco UCS

Microsoft SCO Integration Pack for Cisco UCS

Documentation Developer Guides

Whitepapers

Reference Guides

Collaboration Blogs, videos and access to subject matter experts

Peer to peer forums

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UCS Platform Emulator (UCS PE)

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Hardware Independent Integration – Downloadable Virtual Machine

– Full feature emulator for UCS Manager

– Complete support for XML API calls

– Object Browser to navigate UCSM MIT

– Import and replicate physical UCS Manager physical inventory

– Share physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators

– Drag-n-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory

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Cisco compute and network infrastructure with WS2012, SC2012/SP1, and Hyper-V

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Software

“Single Pane

of Glass”

Operations

Manager SCO

UC

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l fo

r P

ow

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ll

Unified Compute System

UCS Manager

Physical Virtual &

SCVMM

Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V

VM-FEX

Cisco Virtual Networking Solutions

for Hyper-V

Storage

N1KV

Provision and manage Windows Server 2012 physical and virtual environments supported by Cisco UCS and Cisco Virtual Networking Infrastructure.

Cisco UCS PowerTool – UCS Manager version 1.0 released

– Standalone C-Series beta (coming soon)

– UCS Central beta (coming soon)

Cisco UCS SCOM Management Pack – UCS Manager release 2.6 coming soon

– Standalone C-series coming soon

Cisco UCS SCVMM UI Extension – UCS Manager beta available now

Integrated

Cisco and

Microsoft stack

Infrastructure

Cisco UCS PowerTool

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Cisco UCS PowerTool

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Architected for flexibility and coverage – PowerShell wrapper

Cmdlet definition and support

Get-Help support

– .NET UCS Namespace Library XML API call construction

Class definition

Validation

PowerShell Design – In-line get-help support

– Pipelining

– Fully classed object definition

– All “legal” verbs

.NET namespace provides common base for Microsoft focused integration

Targeted to support full UCS manageability across multiple releases

Cisco UCS

PowerTool Module

UCS .NET Namespace

UCS XML API

cmdlets

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Automated Activity Generation from UCS XML Schema

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UCS XML

Schema

Processor

XML Method

& MO Meta

Information

PowerShell

Generator

Microsoft SCO IP

Generator

XYZ

Generator

UCSM-IN.xsd

UCSM-OUT.xsd

Augment

Schema

Cisco UCS

PowerTool

(1700+ cmdlets)

Microsoft SCO

Integration Pack

XYZ

Integration Pack

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Cisco UCS PowerTool Supported Objects

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Service Profiles – Policies (Firmware, Boot

Order, vNIC / vHBA config, Storage, IPMI, SoL, BIOS)

– Pools (WWN, UUID, MAC)

– Configuration Faults

– Launch UCS KVM for SP

Servers – Hardware - CPU, Memory,

Adaptors, CIMC)

– Power Operations

– Power / cooling / network /environmental statistical data

– Hardware Faults

Configuration Operations

‾ Pools (WWN, UUID, MAC, IP)

‾ Policy creation, manipulation, deletion, and consumption

‾ vNIC / vHBA Templates

‾ Service profile template creation, cloning, deletion, instantiation

‾ Simple service profile creation (default other policies / options)

‾ Expert SP creation (use variabilized XML w/ config file)

‾ Compare Managed Objects across orgs and/or domains

‾ Sync Managed Objects across orgs and/or domains

Chassis – Hardware – Power Supply / Fan

Modules / IO Modules

– Power / cooling / network / environmental statistical data

– Config and Hardware Faults

Fabric Interconnect – Hardware – Power Supply / Fan

Modules / Network Expansion Modules

– Power / cooling / network/ environmental statistical data

– Network Elements (VLAN, VSAN, QoS, Port Profiles)

– Configuraton and Hardware Faults

DEMO: Cisco UCS PowerTool

DEMO: Cisco UCS PowerTool – Firmware Upgrade

DEMO: Automating OS Deployments

Managing UCS with Virtual Machine Manager

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Cisco UCS UI Extension for SCVMM

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Manage your private cloud from a single console – Physical, compute and virtual

infrastructure in one place

Show UCS inventory in SCVMM – Launch UCSM GUI from SCVMM

– Summary status of servers

Basic server functions – SP association

– Launch KVM

– Change power/server status

Service Profile Template Support – Instantiate service profiles

– View templates

Correlate from service profile to physical servers and hypervisor

DEMO: Managing Cisco UCS with Virtual Machine Manager

Monitoring UCS with Operations Manager

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UCS Management with Operations Manager

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Holistic View of Converged

Infrastructure Health

Monitor alerts and faults on Chassis,

Blades, Fabric Interconnects, I/O Power

Supply, Fan Modules, etc.

Manage multiple UCS domains with

single management pack

Simple and Powerful

Visualizations

Graphical Views of UCS topology

Graphical views of physical and logical

entities and relationships

Reliable Information

UCS XML API provides a powerful,

supported interface for Operations

Manager

Monitoring Cisco UCS with Operations Manager

Automating tasks for Cisco UCS with Orchestrator

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Automating tasks for Cisco UCS with Orchestrator

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Automate UCS management – Improve predictability and reduce manual

errors with UCS integration pack

– Reduce time to delivery and reduce TCO

– Packaged UCS activities for consistent

delivery of UCS operations

Deliver Scalable and Reliable UCS

management through Orchestrated

Workflows

– Deliver consistent service across multiple

systems and departments

– Packaged workflows to automate UCS

operations

– UCS XML API provides a powerful interface

for Orchestrator workflow operations

Optimize and extend UCS capabilities

Integrate with 3rd party tools using Cisco

UCS integration pack

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Automating tasks for Cisco UCS with Orchestrator

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14 UCS activities,

including Run-

PowerTool, which

provide the capability to

automate virtually any

task in UCS.

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Automating tasks for Cisco UCS with Orchestrator

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Many sample run books

are provided with the

Cisco UCS Integration

pack for SCO to

automate tasks in UCS

DEMO:Automatic Service Profile Fail Over

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Automatic Service Profile Fail-over

Demo purposes only – fail-over should be based on monitoring entire software stack

VM Management tools can do it more effectively;

Achieved with the following PowerTool commands:

– Get SP Hierarchy: $lSpMos = (Get-UcsServiceProfile -dn $aInSpDn -hierarchy)

– Get Blade Hierarchy: $lBladeMos = (Get-UcsManagedObject -dn $aInDn -hierarchy)

– Delete our requirement: Get-UcsServiceProfile -dn $aInSpDn | Disconnect-UcsServiceProfile –force

– Decomission our blade: Set-UcsManagedObject -force -XmlTag computeBlade -PropertyMap @{dn = $lPnDn ; lc= "decommission"}

– Associate a service profile with a blade: Get-UcsServiceProfile -dn $aInSpDn | Associate-UcsServiceProfile -ServerPoolName $lPoolName -force

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Questions

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