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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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