Data Centre Automation Using BladeLogic

Large organisations and enterprises have hundreds, if not thousands, of servers deployed across multiple geographies. Quite commonly, the provisioning, configuring and maintenance of such a large number is a challenge, resulting in an increased complexity of data centre management. It’s understandable that IT managers struggle to find the right tools to automate the administration process.

The answer is to implement a policy-based server automation solution that ensures the highest level of uptime for business critical services. This can be done using the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite which enables provisioning, configuration and compliance of both physical and virtual infrastructure environments.

Within Tiberone’s online video’s, Pieter Stanbridge demonstrates the three key aspects of BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite.

The short presentation by Michael Levy is about the business value, provisioning and configuration, as well as the solution to the headache of auditing and compliances, using BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite.

Business Related:
	Data Centre Automation – Business values and drivers (05:33) (towards bottom of page) In this video Michal Levy presents the business values of provisioning and configuration and the value of auditing.

Technical Related:
Data Centre Automation Using BladeLogic Part 1
	Part 1.1 Using BladeLogic to browse server information (02:23) In this section Peter Stanbridge will demonstrate the BladeLogic Configuration Manager console. The video will cover browsing system objects in the BladeLogic server.

Data Centre Automation Using BladeLogic Part 1 – continued
	Part 1.2 Using BladeLogic to create a package for deployment (01:36)  The following video will cover MSI application packaging for deployment on Windows Server Using BladeLogic Configuration Manager Console.

Data Centre Automation Using BladeLogic Part 1 – continued
	Part 1.3 Using BladeLogic to deploy a package (02:40) Following Part 1.2 the Demo shows how a package created in BladeLogic can be deployed to remote servers.

Data Centre Automation Using BladeLogic Part 2
	How BladeLogic Audit Job is used to compare server objects (02:03) In this section Peter Stanbridge will demonstrate the BladeLogic Audit Job, used to compare server objects such as file or registry setting against a live server a snapshot.

Data Centre Automation Using BladeLogic Part 3
	BladeLogic results from a server compliance job (03:55) This final BladeLogic demonstration video will look at results from a server compliance job.

Tags: BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, Data Centre Automation

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