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On-Prem & Hybrid Automation
On-Prem to Any Cloud — One Automation Engine for Every Server You Run.
SharkOps designs, builds, and operates end-to-end server provisioning and configuration automation that spans your physical data centre, your virtualization estate, and every major public cloud. Bare-metal, virtual, Unix, Windows, on-prem or cloud — the same catalog-driven workflow provisions it, secures it, monitors it, and hands it back fully production-ready.
Who This Is For
Teams that need consistent, catalog-driven builds across a mixed physical, virtual, and cloud estate
Infrastructure & Platform Teams
Running hybrid estates — physical servers, VMware VMs, and multi-cloud workloads side by side.
ITSM Owners
Who want provisioning driven from the service catalog and Service Requests, not manual runbooks.
Security, Compliance & CMDB Owners
Who need every new server to arrive hardened, agent-covered, and inventoried — with no manual gaps.
What We Deliver
We build the automation as a set of catalog-integrated workflows and skills, tied to each Service Request (SR), organised into three lifecycle stages.
1
Prebuild
- Validate SR and catalog inputs; resolve credentials securely — no secrets in scripts.
- Hostname generation, DNS / IP conflict checks, stale-record detection.
- Target-environment detection (physical vs virtual, interconnected vs isolated network zones).
- Approval-gated fan-out so one request can drive multiple servers.
2
Build
- Physical (Unix & Windows): bare-metal provisioning via iDRAC — power control, virtual media boot, BIOS/RAID configuration, OS deployment.
- Virtual (Unix & Windows): VM lifecycle via vCenter — clone from template, guest customization, resource sizing, disk and network attach.
- Cloud (Unix & Windows VMs): native provisioning across Azure, OCI, AWS, and GCP — instance creation, disk initialization, VNet/subnet placement, tagging.
3
Postbuild
- Hostname and local/service account creation; Active Directory domain join.
- Disk initialization and partitioning; NFS mounts where required.
- Security-agent deployment: CrowdStrike Falcon (EDR) and Trend Micro Deep Security / Cloud One (anti-malware & IPS) with policy assignment.
- Monitoring onboarding into SolarWinds Orion via the SWIS REST API.
- Palo Alto network-security integration, SCCM config management, OS hardening, Windows activation.
- CMDB write-back and reboot-and-validate before handoff.
Coverage Matrix
Every target — physical or cloud — goes through the same Prebuild → Build → Postbuild pipeline, so a server lands identically configured regardless of where it runs.
| Platform | Unix Physical | Unix VM | Windows Physical | Windows VM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Prem (iDRAC / vCenter) | ||||
| Azure | — | — | ||
| OCI | — | — | ||
| AWS | — | — | ||
| GCP | — | — |
Tools & Platforms We Integrate
Provisioning & Virtualization
iDRAC
VMware vCenter
Azure
OCI
AWS
GCP
Security & EDR
CrowdStrike Falcon
Trend Micro Deep Security / Cloud One
Palo Alto
Monitoring & Config
SolarWinds Orion
Microsoft SCCM
Directory, Inventory & Orchestration
Active Directory
CMDB
ITSM Catalog / SR Workflows
SSH · WinRM · Cloud Run Commands
Why SharkOps
One engine for the whole estate — built for the messy real-world cases, not just the happy path
One engine, every target
Physical, virtual, and four clouds under a single workflow model.
Catalog-native
Provisioning is driven from the ITSM Service Request, so it fits your existing request-and-approval process.
Secure-by-default handoff
No server leaves the pipeline without EDR, IPS, monitoring, domain join, and CMDB registration.
Scenario-hardened
The workflows handle isolated vs interconnected networks, stale DNS, agent re-registration, and credential edge cases — not just the happy path.
Proof in Production
On-Prem & Hybrid Case Studies
Market Research / Consumer Intelligence
One Automation Engine for Circana's Physical, Virtual & Multi-Cloud Estate
A catalog-driven pipeline that provisions and configures servers identically across 8 platform targets — on-prem bare-metal and VMs plus Unix and Windows VMs on Azure, OCI, AWS, and GCP — and hands each one back production-ready via Prebuild → Build → Postbuild.
8
Platform Targets
Days→Hrs
Build Turnaround
100%
Secure Handoff
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you provision servers across both on-prem and public cloud?
Yes. The same catalog-driven workflow provisions bare-metal and virtual servers in your data centre (via iDRAC and vCenter) and Unix and Windows VMs across Azure, OCI, AWS, and GCP. Every target runs through the identical Prebuild → Build → Postbuild pipeline, so servers land identically configured regardless of where they run.
How does the automation integrate with our existing ITSM and service catalog?
Provisioning is driven from your ITSM service catalog and tied to each Service Request, so it fits your existing request-and-approval process. One request can fan out to multiple servers behind an approval gate, and status is tracked end-to-end in ITSM with a CMDB write-back before handoff.
What security and compliance steps run automatically on every build?
No server leaves the pipeline without EDR (CrowdStrike Falcon), IPS and anti-malware (Trend Micro Deep Security / Cloud One), monitoring onboarding into SolarWinds Orion, Palo Alto network-security integration, Active Directory domain join, OS hardening, and CMDB registration — closing the "server went live without an agent" gap.
One Automation Engine for Every Server You Run
Let our automation team map your hybrid estate and show how a single catalog-driven pipeline can provision, secure, and hand back every server production-ready — physical, virtual, or cloud.
Book a hybrid-automation assessment