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.
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