IaaS , doing myself out of a job?

[Lanz]

A simple question, I've never administrated a cloud based VM infrastructure, so I don't know how involved it is.

As part of my job, I manage a few hundred VMs and their associated hardware. There's more and more talk of moving these VM's into vCloud Air or Azure. Would I be putting myself out of a job if I embraced this idea, or is there still a lot of tinkering and managing of workloads, tuning performance that still needs to be done to keep hundreds of VM's working nice?

I've seen these VMware cloud professional certs, but is managing an IaaS environment a real, technical role or do you just put your VM's out there and forget about them (and end up being made redundant?)

cheers

 

[Lanz]

I'd miss the hardware side for sure, I like server refresh time...

I'm guessing a big part of it would be squeezing max app performance out of each Mhz, as a lazy administrator might be using far more Ghz and RAM a year than they need.

I'd be interested to hear from someone who manages a big environment, to see what's really involved.