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Those folks who are just in the cusp between an environment small enough for manual vm management and too many servers to manage seem to have the biggest problem. Not quite willing to make the investment in automation That whole pets/cattle thing again

Alternatively, the service desk hears about the server reboot from the change system which gives them details of which customer services are potentially affected by the change. The same change record also lets them see the expected impacts on the services and any mitigation strategies or workarounds that have previously…

no hints at all - I like it

it is the most interesting part for me. As the transition from the old style permanent manual config modes to automated "smart" systems become more and more common, the old excuse of pretending you are a single skill admin will be come less and less sale-able or relevant. The holistic view of the service you offer is…

did the title of the demo change - I ended up on one that was called "Troubeshooting Performance Issues Across the Application Stack"

Love me some NSX

Mine was Jon Pertwee

I think I must be missing something on the todays. It asks for which one isn't a key metric, but they all are? Obviously I am coffee deprived this morning

thank you for continuing to invest in your customers

Looping back to see if this had any movement?

Yep, did the same thing. Make sure to read the question

I love it! I'm just about to upgrade my P3 to a P4 so will have one spare - just the thing for this Thank you adatole​

Excellent topic for this month, just hoping I have enough points for the hammock

another vote for VMan

This is one of those things we don't currently do but really want to. Its up there on the next to do list

While this would indeed be nice, I doubt that it's possible. Meraki don't expose the information for a third party to scan, so there isn't much that Solarwinds can do about it

the variations are wide and varied, but attempting to implement ITIL or something like it is much easier with prior training etc. <mcam polishes his ITIL Expert pin>

Same as many others, where childhood was long done before personal computing arrived. Obviously parental tech support for all things tech - bought mom a Mac to make life easier for her (and me)

real people, doing real things - making a difference

its going to be an "interesting" transition for sure. The destination is worthwhile, wish them luck

mobile access to orion could really be nothing more than a view type tailored for small screens, using larger type etc but then have the ability to default to that view type for phone would really make it work.

the whole DR thing is much too easy to treat as a technical hurdle, adding BC moves it much more to the business to decide exactly what is business critical. All too often you see suggestions that cloud fixes all the DR issues - that is the IT department talking not the business.

biggest complication nowadays when answering this question comes when you're using cloud based email providors

Perfect timing to link to that VM doc on SQL server - just as I'm starting the process of talking to our DBA's about Solarwinds

I really didn't like Q2

sure looks like it to me. Hopefully that means lots of compliance and remediation is heading its way in future versions

As the article says - Users are the first line of defense, but they are also the first line of attack Trust no-one

Indeed - So much of what we are doing now is driven by ITIL so connecting our monitoring to our services is vital. The data warehouse aspect would be a huge step in the right direction and enable so many options, pulling SW into the middle of our service operation systems rather than the periphery.

as other have already mentioned - losing nuetrality to a mon/du-opoly doesn't seem to suit the public best interest. The cynic in me also presumes that this has nothing to do with public interest and will be decided based on who pays the most bribes - sorry, "lobbies the most effectively"

funnily enough I have just got back from a 1500 mile road trip with a Garmin GPS that had Yoda as the voice. I heard that so many times its not funny