Cisco is pleased to announce the latest version of the UCS Manager Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c (OEM).  This new version (12.1.0.9.0) is posted on the Cisco Communities website. The plug-in provides health monitoring and status checking.

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Tags: B-Series, C-Series, Cisco UCS, Oracle, Oracle Enterprise Manager, UCS Manager

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Cisco’s CTO, Padmasree Warrior (@padmasree) and Satinder Sethi (VP, UCS Product Management and Data Center Solutions) whiteboard the UCS Grand Slam announcement, and what it means for customers and for the modern data center. Don’t miss this one!

It wouldn’t be Engineers Unplugged without a unicorn challenge, and Padma and Satinder delivered!

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This is Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple:

1. Episodes will publish weekly (or as close to it as we can manage)
2. Subscribe to the podcast here: engineersunplugged.com
3. Follow the #engineersunplugged conversation on Twitter
4. Submit ideas for episodes or volunteer to appear by Tweeting to @CommsNinja
5. Practice drawing unicorns

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Tags: data center, engineers unplugged, FastIT, padmasree warrior, Satinder Sethi, UCS, UCS Manager, UCSGrandSlam

In this week’s episode, Robert Novak (@gallifreyan) and Steve McQuerry (@smcquerry) talk about Big Data on UCS. Real world use cases including UCS Manager, UCS Central, and more.

Big Data, Big Unicorn, courtesy of Robert Novak and Steve McQuerry

This is Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple:

1. Episodes will publish weekly (or as close to it as we can manage)
2. Subscribe to the podcast here: engineersunplugged.com
3. Follow the #engineersunplugged conversation on Twitter
4. Submit ideas for episodes or volunteer to appear by Tweeting to @CommsNinja
5. Practice drawing unicorns

Join the behind the scenes by liking Engineers Unplugged on Facebook.

Tags: Big Data, Cisco UCS, Hadoop, UCS Central, UCS Manager

Many IT organizations use Microsoft PowerShell to automate and accelerate data center management tasks. The Cisco UCS PowerTool module for PowerShell provides users a comprehensive list of cmdlets to manage all components of Cisco UCS.  Users can use these cmdlets to write PowerShell scripts to simplify, speed up, and error proof UCS management and deployment. Read More »

Tags: API, B-Series, C-Series, PowerShell, PowerTool, scripting, scripts, Server Management, UCS Manager, XML

The scripts have started rolling in and I wanted to update you on what’s been posted to date. Maybe you could use them in your environment? To review these scripts and participate in the contest, head over to the Cisco Communities. Read More »

Tags: API, B-Series, C-Series, PowerShell, PowerTool, UCS, UCS Manager, XML