Common solutions used in data centers
How do data centers attempt to address these issues? The short answer is simple: brute labor and/or an attempt at in-house automation using manually written scripts.
There is usually a team of Unix administrators and another team of Windows administrators who are responsible for manually preparing each and every piece of hardware by installing the operating system and patching it to the required level.
These administrators are also responsible for resolving issues with the systems they provision, such as missing pieces in the installation or performance issues that may be due to improper setup of the operating system (wrong values supplied for OS properties, for example, network buffer properties).
There is ...
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