This is my first post.
If you get a chance, check out VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Data center managers are going to love this thing. Basically it almost completely automates your data center operations. Set up blade servers, a SAN, configure your virtual machines, install VI3, install and configure your ESX templates, turn on VI3 features, and you are running. You have high availability, optimal matching of workloads to resources, continuous monitoring of facilities. I think even I could run a data center!