This document discusses DevOps from the perspective of a vSphere administrator. It explains that DevOps is not really new, but aims to break down silos between development and operations teams. A key part of DevOps for administrators is to better understand developers' needs. Administrators should focus on automating IT delivery processes and using configuration management tools to standardize environments and avoid unique "snowflake servers". Automation and configuration management are essential to the DevOps goal of fast, consistent delivery of IT services.