Services We Provide
Capabilities Overview
The Virtualization Assessment service provides a proactive means
for the Client’s management team to determine which applications
and hardware can be optimized in a virtualization infrastructure. The
service provides a high level order of magnitude cost to support the
virtualization architecture. Several optimization goals that will be
evaluated are:
– reduce power and cooling costs (Green IT!)
– reduce data center space requirements (Green IT!)
– reduce license fees
– identify disaster recovery capabilities to meet RTO/RPO
– increase in System Administration effectiveness
– optimize server, network and storage devices
– identify Client’s current systems (Technology Profile via
PlateSpin PowerRecon tool)
What are the Services?
The Virtualization Assessment service identifies critical technical
requirements gathered thru the PlateSpin PowerRecon software
tool, interviews and workshops. The Service determines
applications that would be optimized with a virtualized infrastructure
along with a high level financial impact. As a result, the Service
requires the installation of the PowerRecon software tool to collect
the application and server data.
The following activities are conducted in the Assessment:
– Overview of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (“VI3”)
– Explanation of typical benefits
– Hardware reduction
– Space reduction
– Facilities/infrastructure reduction
– Hardware abstraction and portability
– Use case scenarios
– Production consolidation
– DR enablement
– DC consolidation
Once interest and applicability of one or more use case scenarios
has been established, initial data collection is performed in
preparation for the Virtualization Strategy and Design service. High
level demographic information collected includes:
– Key applications
– Intel server base
– Platform(s)
– Count
– Storage platform(s)
– Current and desired RTO/RPO (if known)
– Installation and configuration of the PowerRecon console
for inventory and performance data collection
After data collection has completed (est. 14 days), metadata is
used to create an initial business justification, including:
– Green IT:
– Hardware reduction
– Space reduction
– Infrastructure reduction
– Facilities reduction
– Lifecycle savings (TCO comparison)
Capabilities Overview
The Virtualization Assessment service provides a proactive means
for the Client’s management team to determine which applications
and hardware can be optimized in a virtualization infrastructure. The
service provides a high level order of magnitude cost to support the
virtualization architecture. Several optimization goals that will be
evaluated are:
– reduce power and cooling costs (Green IT!)
– reduce data center space requirements (Green IT!)
– reduce license fees
– identify disaster recovery capabilities to meet RTO/RPO
– increase in System Administration effectiveness
– optimize server, network and storage devices
– identify Client’s current systems (Technology Profile via
PlateSpin PowerRecon tool)
What are the Services?
The Virtualization Assessment service identifies critical technical
requirements gathered thru the PlateSpin PowerRecon software
tool, interviews and workshops. The Service determines
applications that would be optimized with a virtualized infrastructure
along with a high level financial impact. As a result, the Service
requires the installation of the PowerRecon software tool to collect
the application and server data.
The following activities are conducted in the Assessment:
– Overview of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (“VI3”)
– Explanation of typical benefits
– Hardware reduction
– Space reduction
– Facilities/infrastructure reduction
– Hardware abstraction and portability
– Use case scenarios
– Production consolidation
– DR enablement
– DC consolidation
Once interest and applicability of one or more use case scenarios
has been established, initial data collection is performed in
preparation for the Virtualization Strategy and Design service. High
level demographic information collected includes:
– Key applications
– Intel server base
– Platform(s)
– Count
– Storage platform(s)
– Current and desired RTO/RPO (if known)
– Installation and configuration of the PowerRecon console
for inventory and performance data collection
After data collection has completed (est. 14 days), metadata is
used to create an initial business justification, including:
– Green IT:
– Hardware reduction
– Space reduction
– Infrastructure reduction
– Facilities reduction
– Lifecycle savings (TCO comparison)
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