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What does it mean to be aVMware pro?A look at the evolution of the role of the VMware professional
Scott Lowehttp://blog.scottlowe.org
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❝The only thing that is constant is change.❞—Heraclitus
What would you say was VMware's major value proposition in the early years?
Consolidation
What would you say is VMware's major value proposition today?
It's about speed,flexibility,& agility
VMware's value proposition has evolved
VMware's technologies have also evolved☞ It's not just about VMs anymore
☞ Multiple forms of virtualization: not just compute, but storage and network virtualization as well
☞ Products to help with management/operations, automation/orchestration, and security
☞ It's about the software-defined data center
So what makes VMware pros think we don't have to change and evolve?
❝If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.❞—Eric Shinseki
It's time for therise of thedata centerarchitect
The data center architect is the next step☞ Just as VMware's value and technologies are evolving, so too do
VMware professionals need to evolve
☞ VMware professionals are well-suited to evolve into the data center architects
☞ VMware sits at the center of the software-defined data center and touches almost every other area
❝The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.❞—Socrates
We must constantly be learning☞ Business drivers and business value
☞ Storage
☞ Networking
☞ Security
☞ Automation/orchestration
Practical steps to getting started➀ Model some DevOps principles
➁ Expand your technical horizons
➂ Think systems, not components
➃ Talk to the business
DevOps? What does that have to do with this?
Model some DevOps principles☞ Look beyond the hype (DevOps isn't just for Dev and Ops)
☞ A key tenet of DevOps is breaking down barriers between groups to improve the business value of IT
☞ DevOps principles are valuable to any IT pro
☞ CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement/Metrics, Sharing)
Expand your technical horizons☞ Linux
☞ Automation/orchestration tools
☞ New storage architectures
☞ Network virtualization
☞ Don't get distracted by the new shiny!
Think systems, not components☞ Think at a systems level: your data center is a system, not a
bunch of individual technologies
☞ Compute affects storage which affects networking which impacts security which has an effect on operations...
☞ Everything is interrelated and connected
Talk to the business!☞ Understand the business of your business
☞ Think about how the work of IT (your work) affects the business
☞ Talk in their language
☞ Focus on requirements, not solutions
☞ Say yes, not no
Q&A
❝No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.❞—Heraclitus
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