Webinar – Move To The Cloud

Posted on by Matt Griffith

I’ll be running a live webinar on the 16th September 2020 in conjunction with Mark McGill from Delphix, where we will do a live demo of some really cool stuff with data virtualisation in the cloud.

Using Delphix with the public cloud (AWS in this case) we will demo how super easy it is to spin up secure dev/test/analytics environments of any size on demand.

I’ve been working on this as a solution for a customer over the last few months and the possibilities it opens up are numerous.  Gone are the days of the lengthy procurement process to get some tin in the data centre, or the request process to have VMs spun up, or the capacity planning headaches, or the on going costs even when you’re not using your infrastructure.

The public cloud solves all that but you mix it with Delphix and you also solve the problems of moving data around environments.  It literally takes minutes to spin up 1, 10, 100 new copies of a masked production database on server resources of your choice to meet your requirements right now.

I’m pretty excited about this so come have a look at the demo and see what you think.

Here’s the registration page.  If you can’t make it register anyway and you’ll be sent a recording to view at your leisure.

See you there.

 

Managing Large Delphix DDP Estates

Posted on by Matt Griffith

Ansible Delphix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The DataOps movement is certainly gaining momentum and, as a key supporting tool,  the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP) is quickly growing with it.  More and more large enterprises are deploying tens or even hundreds of Delphix engines throughout their data centres in all parts of the world.  With that comes the inevitable challenge of managing such an estate and specifically with Delphix, as an example, managing system configurations, user accounts and privileges that are locally configured on each engine becomes unwieldy and time consuming.  For instance, the enterprise may have a global support model with a dedicated team of support engineers who look after the day to day running of the estate.  The support team take on a new engineer who needs access to every engine to perform their role and we really don’t want to manually access each engine individually to add a new support user account.

In this post I’m going to look at one way of creating a centralised management solution for such a scenario.  It can then be developed further to achieve much more, such as mass deployment of source and target environment configurations, dSources, VDB’s and any other object management requirements you may have. Continue reading “Managing Large Delphix DDP Estates” →