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Cisco UCS: Add/Remove VLAN on vNIC using Powershell

Recently I worked in the environment where we needed to modify multiple UCS Service Profiles, adding and removing VLANs to/from vNICs.

If you are using vNIC templates – it is just a few clicks and you are done. But what if you don’t? What if you have 20 Service Profiles and each has 10 vNics and you have to add one VLAN and remove the other? And what if you have more???

Yes, you can do all this in UCSM but you will probably die get bored/make mistakes after all those clicks :)

Here is how you do this via CLI/SSH:

fi6120-A# scope service-profile server 3/7          <-- we need to go to our service profile
fi6120-A /org/service-profile # show vnic           <-- we can check our vnic names

vNIC:
 Name Fabric ID Dynamic MAC Addr Virtualization Preference
 ------------------ --------- ------------------ -------------------------
 eth0 A 00:25:B5:A0:00:27 NONE
 eth1 B 00:25:B5:B0:00:27 NONE
fi6120-A /org/service-profile # scope vnic eth0                          <-- we need to go to particular vnic
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic # create eth-if vblock_esx_vmotion    <-- and create vlan
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic/eth-if* # commit-buffer               <-- and commit changes
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic/eth-if # exit                         <-- now if we want to remove it we need to go up 1 level
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic # delete eth-if vblock_esx_vmotion    <-- and we can remove it here
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic* # commit-buffer                      <-- remember to commit changes
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic # exit                                <-- one level up
fi6120-A /org/service-profile # scope vnic eth1                          <-- and we can go to another vnic and repeat everything
fi6120-A /org/service-profile/vnic #

but this still requires to touch all objects and we are lazy need to be more efficient, right? ;)

Powershell to the rescue!

You can download Cisco UCS PowerTool and the documentation from Cisco web site:
https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-37154

Get-Module -ListAvailable
{Skipped}
Directory: C:Program Files (x86)CiscoCisco UCS PowerToolModules
ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------
Binary     1.1.2.0    CiscoUcsPS                          {Export-UcsXml, Export-UcsMoXml, Compare-UcsManagedObject, Start-UcsKvmSession...}

Import-Module -Name CiscoUcsPS

We will be working with multiple VLANs so let’s create a small vlan.csv file with the following content:
vlan_name
vlan100
vlan101
vlan102
vlan103

and save it to, for example, C:Scripts .

To add VLAN you can execute this simple script:

Connect-Ucs UCS_Manager_IPaddress -Credential (Get-Credential)
$csv = Import-Csv C:Scriptsvlan.csv
foreach ($row in $csv)
{
Get-UcsServiceProfile -Filter 'Name -ilike dc2esx*' | Get-UcsVnic | Add-UcsVnicInterface -Name $row.vlan_name
}
Disconnect-Ucs

After few second all these VLANs will be added to all Service Profiles where service profile name is like “dc2esx”.

OK, let’s remove some as well:

Connect-Ucs UCS_Manager_IPaddress -Credential (Get-Credential)
$csv = Import-Csv C:Scriptvlan.csv
foreach ($row in $csv)
{
Get-UcsServiceProfile -Filter 'Name -ilike dc2esx*' | Get-UcsVnic | Get-UcsVnicInterface -Name $row.vlan_name | Remove-UcsVnicInterface -Force | Out-File C:Scriptsvlan.log
}
Disconnect-Ucs

This time we removed all VLANs and in addition we have a log from this operation – we love logs right?
Using '-Force' option will remove a prompt “Are sure to remove object…”

Easy? Remember, Powershell is extremely powerful! Think twice before you execute any script!
And do backup! You can use Powershell for it as well:

Backup-Ucs -Type full-state -PathPattern 'C:Backups${ucs}-${yyyy}${MM}${dd}-${HH}${mm}-full-state.tar.gz'

(c) Zbigniew ‘Ziggy’ Misiak

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