{"id":9489,"date":"2020-05-11T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:11:38","slug":"meme-monday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/meme-monday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that time again to explore common data protection themes through memes! This time, I&#8217;m looking at some animated GIFs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We&#8217;ll fix it in production<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"352\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Fix-it-in-Production.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9490\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;We&#8217;ll fix it in production&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll fix it in production&#8221; is one of the most terrifying things you can say in IT. I know, sometimes there&#8217;s no choice, but I&#8217;ll bet $100 that there&#8217;s a choice a lot more often than people say there&#8217;s no choice. I&#8217;ve got one key tip to offer whenever anyone says <em>we&#8217;ll fix it in production<\/em>: make sure your backups are primed \u2013&nbsp;you&#8217;re probably going to need them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Single Pane of Glass<\/h3>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif aligncenter\">\n\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56%\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l3vRjnpVPLmyRbcS4\" title=\"breaking glass\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif-caption gallery-caption\">There&#8217;s no such thing as a single pane of glass<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>OK, here&#8217;s a controversial topic: there&#8217;s no such thing as a single pane of glass. Or rather, here&#8217;s the real crux of the matter: <strong>your single pane of glass is waiting for <em>you<\/em> to write it<\/strong>. Why do I say this? Because data protection is <em>never<\/em> the <em>only<\/em> infrastructure thing your business does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Automation is just part of where infrastructure is headed. Orchestration is the Next Big Thing. Your infrastructure <em>single pane of glass<\/em> does not come in the form of Data Protection Central (DPC), or CommVault&#8217;s management interface, or Veritas&#8217;s, and so on. I&#8217;m not dissing DPC, it really is a <em>single pane of glass<\/em>, but it&#8217;s not <em>the<\/em> single pane of glass for your business infrastructure. It never will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your single pane of glass exists as a concept, waiting for you to write it<\/strong>. It may be that you start with a particular tool, like the vRealize\/vCloud suite, or even ServiceNow, or you might literally <em>roll your own<\/em>, building your entire infrastructure operations and monitoring portal from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That portal is built around orchestration \u2014&nbsp;around digging into each of the products (storage, data protection, compute, network, virtualisation, etc.) using their REST APIs and other hooks to build up a complete stack control system. In an optimum infrastructure environment, your teams don&#8217;t need to use a vendor GUI at all: they have everything embedded via APIs into a true single pane of glass portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: whenever I see the requirement in an RFP, &#8220;Must have a single pane of glass&#8221;, I do a pretty epic eye-roll. <em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">It&#8217;s not the right question<\/span><\/em>. It never has been. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em>It never will be<\/em><\/span>. The right question is always: <em><strong>Tell us how to integrate this product into OUR single pane of glass<\/strong>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your backup software has more functionality than you think<\/h3>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif aligncenter\">\n\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56%\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/eroy7AoB8XOKc\" title=\"drag queen death drop\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif-caption gallery-caption\">Your backup software is full of surprising functionality<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>This sort of carries on from my previous point: your backup software (and further, your data protection software) is full of surprising functionality. I&#8217;ve been told <em>NetWorker Can&#8217;t Do X<\/em> quite a few times over the years, and most of the time I&#8217;ve been told that <em>it&#8217;s been wrong<\/em>. Usually what it&#8217;s actually meant was <em>there&#8217;s no GUI option for X<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The start of the explanation is: <em>just because the functionality isn&#8217;t embedded into the product GUI doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not there<\/em>. Here&#8217;s something else to consider though: <em>just because the functionality isn&#8217;t documented doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t do it<\/em>. That&#8217;s what a framework based data protection system is premised on: use pre and post scripts to perform additional functions to enable backups. Use NetWorker OAP to protect databases for which there&#8217;s no module. <em>Use scripting<\/em> and other forms of automation to provide outcomes like initiating multi-host consistent backups of any complex system you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think outside the square: you&#8217;d be impressed with what you can achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s it for Meme Monday this month. But be sure to check back on the blog soon \u2014&nbsp;<strong>there&#8217;s a really big announcement coming this week<\/strong>. And this announcement has been in development for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again to explore common data protection themes through memes! 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