Went to an interesting product demonstration at Sun in London this week. xVM Ops Center accomplishes quite a few of the more mundane tasks of managing a network of Sun, Redhat and SUSE systems.
For starters it can function as a Jumpstart build server, and part of the infrastructure is optional proxy systems that can host the necessary DHCP service on the various VLANs where you're running the servers.
Once a system is built or identified, it can log in (assuming you provide credentials) and install the client software it uses to interface with the various systems to perform its management tasks. It does this securely.
Once systems are under the management umbrella of xvmops you can roll out patches (all dependencies handled) across your whole estate, simultaneously if required, with kernel reboots also handled (ALOM/ILOM support for SPARC systems as well).
It can do all this for virtualbox clients too. Also, snapshot functions, rolling back patches, simple capacity monitoring and effectively the ability to restore systems is also provided. Pretty good stuff all in all.
25 June, 2009
Fresh start
Wordpress sucks on the Eee - all the assets overlap because of the small screen. I tried looking around for a decent local client but there doesn't seem to be anything there, so I've given up on that.
This is more of a reminder post to myself. I'm going to get some proper tags laid out on here. I seem to be doing more stuff now that Google doesn't necessarily help with, so perhaps I can contribute a bit here and there. Not sure whether to keep this as a personal weblog and start some new ones for work areas, or just make pages under here. Merkdot is a quite memorable if stupid name after all.
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