There is only one thing I can say about the vBrownbag crew and their work

They are AMAZING!!!!

The crew on site was Jeremiah Dooley, Josh Atwell, Alastair Cooke and Eric Wright, Damian Karlson.

Here is their summary post - #vBrownBag was at OpenStack Summit Atlanta

The setup was super professional, the stream quality was amazing – kudos to the event team that provided super bandwidth!

The location was perfect and the sessions were great.

You can find the full playlist of all the sessions here

The session I presented is embedded below, and will give some insight into what I am currently working on – and where we are headed with OpenStack

Of course automation is a great thing – so Just to leave you with a quick way to download all of the presentations for your offline viewing – I used youtube-dl.

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+), and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

So simple

youtube-dl -cit --max-quality FORMAT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2rC-8e38bUUDMikhKMpAT1KhDljl08wZ

From the official blurb..

Cisco UCS vCenter Plug-in is an extension for the vSphere Web Client v5.1 or higher. It enables virtualization administrators to view, manage and monitor various aspects of Cisco UCS physical infrastructure. The result is a single pane of glass for Virtual Center users to get both physical and virtual infrastructure information for a given hypervisor.

The packages can be downloaded from here.

The Cisco UCS Plug-in can be divided into 2 major components, ucs-vcplugin service and ucs-vcplugin UI. ucs-vcplugin services use UCS Java SDK to interact with UCS domains over XML API interface and the
ucs-vcplugin UI is the flex based extension to the web client, which communicates with the ucs-vcplugin services to populate the UI.

You will need to download 2 files (the plugin actually does not need to be downloaded – and can be automatically downloaded during the plugin registration)

In the RegisterVCPlugin-092.zip file you will find an executable - RegisterVcPlugin_092.exe. Run the executable.

You will need to provide some information. If you have already downloaded the ucs-vcplugin-0.9.2.zip file and have made it available to through a web server locally (like I did), then you can provide your own URL.

You should use an https:// url and not http – otherwise you will need to make a configuration change in your vSphere Web client configuration on the vCenter server.

After pressing submit and a minute later (if all the information was correct) you should see the following:

After logging into your vSphere Web Client (and remember this is a web client plugin only) you should see something similar to this.

To manage the Fabric Interconnect’s, register the UCS with the correct information

You can now see a new addition to your Web client

The plugin will automatically recognize your ESXi hosts.

And here you can find a plethora of information.

The profile applied, which blade this is (Chassis 3, Blade 8)

You can open a KVM directly to the Blade

You see the firmware as well.

All in all – I find this to be a good integration. It is a read-only interface – which is a good (or bad) thing – depends on your view of the world.

Completely free – but it is officially a beta – so this is not supported and should be deployed at your own risk.

This thread was brought to my attention - https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2246189

After updating Java to Update 45 - you can no longer login to UCSM (UCS Manager)

You may see one of two errors:

Login Error: java.io.IOException: Invalid Http response

Login Error: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: http://x.x.x.x:443/nuova

Cisco Bug ID: CSCuj84421

This is due to a change introduced in Java

The solution posted is to rollback to Update 25. Rolling back to Update 40 also works.