Heavy Networking 691: Why OOB Infrastructure Is Critical For IT Ops & Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)

Today on Heavy Networking we talk about out-of-band management with episode sponsor ZPE Systems. Out of band management, or OOB, provides secure remote access to IT infrastructure and uses a separate network to provide that access in case your production management plane isn’t available. OOB is useful to have when systems go down, be it a software problem or maybe a security incident. It’s especially useful if the infrastructure is remote and getting someone onsite could take hours. On today’s show, we look at how ZPE Systems is rethinking OOB so you can leverage this network for more than rebooting servers and configuring switches. The goal here is automated, NetOps-driven Integrated Isolated Management Infrastructure (IIMI), including things like device staging, deployments, upgrades, and more. And you don’t just have to take ZPE’s word for it. They’ve brought a customer who’s using the products to help support a retail business with more than fifty sites–all with a very lean networking team. Our guests are Rene Neumann, Director of Solution Engineering at ZPE Systems; and Blake Johnson, Network Architect at furniture retailer Living Spaces. We discuss: * How ZPE Systems’ products work * The evolution of OOB to IIMI * Common use cases * Extending into infrastructure automation and NetOps * How Living Spaces reduces costs with ZPE Systems * More Show Links: ZPESystems.com/packetpushers ZPE Systems Documentation (ungated) @ZPESystems – ZPE Systems on Twitter ZPE Systems on LinkedIn Day Two Cloud 188: Out-Of-Band Management And Infrastructure Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored) Transcript: Drew Conry-Murray (00:00:00) – Today on heavy networking, we talk about Out-of-band management with episode sponsor XRP Systems. So Out-of-band management or EOB, provides secure remote access to IT infrastructure and uses a separate network to provide that access. In case your production management plan isn’t available. OAB is useful to have when systems go down, be it a software problem or a security incident. And it’s especially useful if that infrastructure is remote and getting someone on site could take hours. But on today’s show, we’ll also look at how XRP Systems is rethinking Out-of-band so that you can leverage this network for more than just rebooting servers and configuring switches. The goal here is automated net ops driven infrastructure management, including things like device staging deployments, upgrades and more. And you don’t just have to take Xrp’s word for it. They’ve also brought a customer who’s using the products to help support a retail business with more than 50 sites, all with a very lean networking team. I’m Drew Conroy. Murray I’m joined with co-host Ethan Banks. Our guests are Erin Neumann. He’s director of Solutions engineering at CP Systems. Drew Conry-Murray (00:00:50) – And Blake Johnson, network architect at Living Spaces, a furniture retailer. Rene and Blake, welcome to the podcast. And Rene, can you start us off with a quick overview of XRP Systems Systems? Rene Neumann (00:01:00) – We are close to ten years old, so this summer we are going to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We are a US company and really our focus is around providing a management infrastructure solution...