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Data Center Automation
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Today’s IT State
Nearly 72% of IT staff perform maintenance & support tasks
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Only 28% are assigned to participate in strategic initiatives
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Typical System Lifecycle
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Installation ConfigurationFixesPatchesAudits
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Occurrence, Recurrence, Idempotence
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Are there more
systems to configure?
Apply Security Policies, Satisfy
Compliance Needs
Configure the System (Web, DB.
App, etc.)
System Fully Configured and is
Compliant
System Error OR
Migration?System Monitoring
System Crash?
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What lies in there?
Systems need to be configured
More the systems, more is the work
Bad configuration can be worst than no configuration
Temporary changes become permanent
Changes are meant to forget
Users are created, deleted and recreated
Software is installed, uninstalled and reinstalled
Need to log into the system one-by-one and configure
Need for compliance and identical configuration, policies
Change Auditing is a nightmare
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What Happens Without Automation?
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Test Your IT Infrastructure, Ask your Administrator…
How many changes were made in 100 servers in last 3 months?
Install this software or change a parameter in a file on 500 servers within 10mins?
Recover 5 crashed servers in 10mins?
Cut down IT man power – handle 300 servers with a single resource?
Have consistent configuration throughout the organization on 500 servers?
Show the configuration file that was changed on 10th
December 2002, 20th January 2005 and 25th December 2009?
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Current Business Challenges
Increasing IT demands
Complex IT Infrastructure
Ever changing technology landscape
• Hardware/Software upgrades
• Adoption of new technologies
• Training needs
High dependency on human resources
Difficult knowledge transfer during staff attrition
Compliance Enforcement and Management
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Current Technology Challenges
Template based software configuration across data center
Enforcing change management for all the IT resources
Multiple ownerships for same IT resource to facilitate 24X7 support
Human driven machines are more error prone
Difficult and time consuming recovery procedures
Rolling out software configuration changes or new software across an entire organization, groups, individual resources
Single window IT support console
Under-achieved SLAs
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Solution – Puppet
Centralized configuration management for entire data center
Template based software configurations – Applicable to individual resource, resource groups and organization wide resources
Quick recovery of the crashed system by using master configurations stored in the automation framework
Version controlled configuration files
Dashboard to show configuration changes with historical reports
Single console to manage entire data center – No need to login to individual servers
Improved SLAs
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What can we automate?
Software Installation
Patch Management
Software Configuration (Web, DB, App, etc.)
Security Policies
Change Management
User/Group Management
Day-to-day tasks (Commands, Scripts, Scheduled tasks, Log Management)
Disaster Recovery
Auditing
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Business Benefits
Policy compliance (SOX, SAS70, ISO 27001, etc.)
Better Change Management (ITIL)
Lower human dependencies
More servers per administrator
Shift of human resource focus towards strategic planning
Reduced Errors – Complete peace of mind
Experience the Automated world
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Who is already using Puppet? Following organizations are few out of the long list who utilized the data
center automation framework to benefit their businesses.
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Supported Platforms Linux
• CentOS
• Debian 3.1 and later
• Fedora Core 2-6
• Fedora 7 and later
• Gentoo Linux
• Mandriva Corporate Server 4
• RHEL 3 and later
• Oracle Linux
• SuSE Linux 8 and later
• Ubuntu 7.04 and later
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Other Unix
Macintosh OS X
Sun Solaris 2.6
Sun Solaris 7 and later
BSD
FreeBSD 4.7 and later
OpenBSD 4.1 and later
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How does it work?
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What do we offer?
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Contact Us
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ZoNIX SystemsH-87, First Floor, Sector-63Noida-201301Ph. 91-120-649-5554Email. [email protected]. www.ZoNIXSystems.com
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