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Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrator the same thing about the network devices and they'll probably look at you in confusion. Likely responses may include: * Uh, the device configuration…
You’ve made the leap and have implemented a DevOps strategy in your organization. If everything is going just great, this post may not be for you. But if you haven’t implemented DevOps, or you have and things just don’t seem to be progressing as quickly as you had hoped, let’s discuss some of the reasons why your DevOps…
While the previous two posts in this DevOps series have been open-ended and applicable to people on both the development and operations side, this post is focused on operations personnel. After all, if you're a developer and asking if you need to learn to code, then you might not be in the right job. I've recently had the…
You've just been given the following assignment from your boss: He's asked you to make the organization more DevOps-oriented. You've gone back and forth on what his definition of DevOps is and what he wants you to accomplish. You're ready to get going, and think, "What could go wrong?" A good bit, it turns out. In the…
In my previous posts, I have covered how to manage VM sprawl and how to do proper Capacity Planning. In this post, I would like to share my experience of Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 6.3. Today’s virtualized data centers are dynamic environments where a myriad of changes (provisioning, snapshotting, deletions etc.)…
Most large organizations have IT change management processes sorted. The approval cycle, implementation, backout steps, review and closure form a fine-tuned machine with many moving parts. This is day-to-day stuff. You can’t manage a large infrastructure without having a structured, consistent approach to managing changes.…
In my last post, we talked about the Business going outside of your I.T. controls and self-provisioning Software as a Service solutions. Most of you were horrified and could identify a number of internal policies that a SaaS solution wouldn’t comply with. You understood that these policies are there to protect the…
Last week, I discussed taking your mastery of your virtual environment and extending its domain command. I listed a set of four skills that will allow any virtualization administrator to take flight with their career: Security, Optimization, Automation, and Reporting. This week, I’ll cover the first skill, security, and…
Maximize your resources’ utility In the previous week, I covered security as a skill to take your IT career to the next level. This week, I’ll walk through optimization as another high value add skill in the virtual environment. To truly appreciate the importance of optimization, you have to understand the blood, sweat and…
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