Episode 154 – Josh Heller from Cisco on UCS and PowerShell

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Josh Heller from Cisco about their Unified Computing System and managing it with PowerShell

News

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• The PowerShell has announced a PowerShell Deep Dive for Europe!
• SQL Saturday #89 Atlanta will be held at Georgia State University, September 17th
• Sybex has published Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0
• Aaron Nelson posted info on the new PowerShell cmdlets in SQL Denali CTP3

Interview

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Links:

• Cisco Unified Computing System
• Cisco Developer Network
• Twitter: @MSonUCS

Buzz from the Chatroom:

21:46  esacteksab: ## If you didn’t work for Cisco, would you think “what is a networking company doing selling server hardware?”
## comparable price per…?
22:05  esacteksab: ## Identity = WWPN/MAC/etc?
22:14  Meson3902: ## will you be giving way UCS servers tonight? 😉
(For those reading–the answer was “no’.)
22:19  esacteksab: ## is your Nexus v1000 “standard” when you purchase chassis/blades for VMware?
22:25  MarkDW: ## Any plans or Powershell support for other Cisco products outside of UCS?

Questions:

Superhero: Superman

Resources

• The EnergizedTech has posted about implementing -whatif into and advanced function
• PowerShell for Lotus Notes and Domino
• New project from James: ServerShell
• PowerShell for Quest Defender

Tips

• Speed up your PowerCLI session
• Tweet from @JeffHicks: Use Test-Connection -quiet to verify computers are up in your scripts and functions