Actually we've found quite the opposite, because proprietary vendor management tools are generally hard to automate and integrate with existing frameworks such

Actually we've found quite the opposite, because proprietary vendor management tools are generally hard to automate and integrate with existing frameworks such as puppet - the time it takes to administer them is far greater than any of our more standard systems. I just replied to a similar observation from someone else here: http://smcleod.net/building-a-high-performance-ssd-san/#comment-1949813997 http://smcleod.net/building-a-high-performance-ssd-san/#comm...