Throw away your DC inventory spreadsheet, it is lying to you Moritz - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Throw away your DC inventory spreadsheet, it is lying to you

Moritz Rogalli - @moegyver

A confession...

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What do we want? A proper source of truth!

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Say no to spreadsheets!

What is truth?

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fact=True

License: CC-BY-SA 4, Author: Kedumuc10

What is false truth?

Dangerous (see recent news)

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Truth changes

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Humans make errors and get bored easily

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Networking, RAID, OOB, DNS, monitoring, warranty, installation, BIOS, firmware, version control, API, access control, etc. pp.

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Hardware breaks and needs maintenance

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Replacing broken hardware takes time

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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No pets allowed in the DC

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Exception: Goldfish in redundant bowls (VMs)

License: CC-BY 2.0, Author: Alan O'Rourke http://audiencestack.com/ @moegyver

Ownership - Hand over the keys to their servers

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Socrates -

Source of configuration, racks and totally every system

License: CC-BY-SA 4, Author: Kedumuc10 @moegyver

Automated inventory API based hardware and VM management OS agnostic (if you can PXE-boot it we can support it) CM agnostic

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Keeps track of all changes

Handles: Ownership, Storage config, Network config, Firmware config, Firmware updates, OOB, Warranty @moegyver License: CC-SA 3.0, Source: Wikicommons, Author: Oggmus

Firmware

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• mconfig hpalucli

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Open source? Soon! TM

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TY for the last three years, looking forward to keep contributing to Socrates!

Adam, Alexander, Andreas, Daniel, Henrik, Johan, Kim, Marcus, Maxim, Näva, Oscar and Tobias and everyone at Init AB - PS: They are looking for a replacement

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