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this is maybe just a note for myself as i found out that the UCSD-Documentation is in polite wording „somehow incomplete“. After re-engineering some existing workflow task-scripts and playing around a bit, the good news: it’s simple and straightforward to create custom workflow tasks on your own. Background I wanted to create the name of newly provisioned VLANs automatically: the IP-Subnet was provided by an IPAM, e.g. „10.2.3.0“, the VLAN-Names should have fixed length, had to be padded („010.002.003.000“). The workflow takes two task inputs: the „network“, the char to be used to pad the network-string to the fixed length as special feature, this parameter isRead More →

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Yes, I agree: this product name can’t get worse. What’s not good with the product name „UCS Director“? It needs explanation! Nobody in this world could guess it’s feature-set, everybody thinks it’s some additional umbrella-management on top of the UCS-Manager or UCS Central. „Unified Infrastructure Controller“ would fit much better, since the UCSD not only automates UCS-Components, but the whole Datacenter (and more) including LAN/SAN-Switches, Firewalls and the virtualization environment like vSphere or Hyper-V.  Read More →