Tag Archives: powershell

Cisco MDS Inter VSAN Routing & Scripting

When using a Cisco MDS environment with the Inter VSAN feature on a 9222i for example, it can take a lot of work to complete the zoning configuration. The most easy way is to use the GUI based IVR wizard, … Continue reading

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Powershell and Snapview scripting

Currently we are providing automated disaster recovery environments for different customers. Part of this implementation is to provide the customer with an anual disaster recovery test. We are using a combination of VMware vSphere and EMC VNX / Clariion storage … Continue reading

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Navisphere Analyzer: Automating NAZ decrypt and NAR merge

When you do not have a Navisphere Analyzer license but you want to make a performance analysis, it can be a lot of work. I created two powershell scripts that will automate the decrypting of the NAZ files and merging … Continue reading

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HA Admission Control: Base VM reservation on percentage

When configuring HA Admission Control based on a percentage, do you ever look at the current failover capacity from the vCenter inventory? When you do, it is possible you also noticed that the current failover capacity does not reflect the … Continue reading

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Bulk add zones on Brocade FOS using Powershell

In my previous post I presented a script which makes it much faster to add many zones to a Cisco MDS switch with the use of the “single initiator – single target” principle. lately I have been working with some … Continue reading

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Bulk add zones on Cisco MDS SAN using Powershell

When adding many zones to an existing zoneset, it can be a large amount of work when using the “single initiator – single target” principle. About two years ago, my collegue Jon Klaus http://goo.gl/tliyn created a very cool VBS script … Continue reading

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Cisco UCS Powershell Toolkit: Adding bulk VLAN

When connecting the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects to your existing LAN Infrastructure, you need to add the VLAN’s manually due to the fact that UCS does not support VTP (VLAN Trunk Protocol). Inside this blogpost I will specify two basic … Continue reading

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