Virtualisation Assessment
Server Virtualisation makes compelling sense for all organisations. Server Virtualisation prevents the sprawl that occurs in most organisations caused by the pattern of one server per application.
Driving down costs, improving flexibility, and improving IT management are ongoing requirements for businesses today. IT staff are overrun with tasks to track assets, target capacity and usage, plus know intuitively when technology needs to be tuned or upgraded for greater performance.
The objective of this server virtualisation assessment service from DSS is to produce an initial server virtualisation overview and report in order to plan for the implementation of server virtualisation within your organisation. This will identify many of the issues and benefits that can be achieved. Its duration will be over the course of one day, at the end of which a report will be produced and presented.
The purpose of carrying out such an server virtualisation assessment is to provide you with a roadmap for the implementation of server virtualisation, a realistic view of the benefits to be achieved and the obstacles to be overcome, an outline schedule for the delivery of the project, a definition of the target virtual infrastructure and indicative financial analysis. It will show how server virtualisation can fit into your existing information technology infrastructure and operations.
This will enable you to prepare a business case for server virtualisation. It will equip you with all the facts you need to understand if server virtualisation will deliver you bottom-line business benefits.
It will also provide the basis for further more detailed server virtualisation implementation and capacity planning analysis, which may be undertaken for the project as well.
Server Virtualisation Assessment Outputs
Some of the outputs that will be provided through this assessment include:
Site Discovery:
An inventory of server and applications, an identification of requirements, an outline view of virtualisation architecture and implementation options, definition of virtualisation benefits.
Server Identification:
Identification of servers to be virtualised, Collection of server performance information, outline definition and documentation of scope of virtualisation exercise, definition of target virtual environment
Virtualisation Architecture:
A definition of the physical architecture and outline view of the system availability and continuity of operations.
Virtualisation Implementation: An outline view of the key implementation stages and dependencies in the project, address operation, maintenance, support and administration requirements.
Financial Analysis:
A guide to the likely project costs and projected savings that can be achieved.
Through this server virtualisation assessment, answers can be provided to a number of key questions including:
- What servers do I have and what are their performance characteristics?
- What is my server utilisation – processor, memory?
- What is the estimate of my consolidation opportunity?
- What will the configuration be of the target server virtualisation platform?
- What are the server virtualisation options?
- What servers are not recommended for virtualisation?
- What servers are obsolete?
DSS Server Virtualisation Solution and Approach
DSS partner with VMware in providing server consolidation and virtualisation solutions based on VMware ESX Server and VirtualCentre technologies which will deliver all the benefits of server virtualisation.
Our unique, industry-leading skills around Project Management with our Project Management Office (PMO), ensures that DSS takes a end-to-end approach to providing a solution to our customers which is clear, consistent and tailored to your individual needs. In taking such an approach it ensures a high degree of project success, measurability and accountability.
Proof of Concept Virtualisation Laboratory
The only one of its kind in Ireland, the lab contains a state of the art ESX server farm where our VMWare Certified Professionals can demonstrate the full functionality of the VMWare ESX data-centre class software on a range of technologies and applications including Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, Linux and Netware and other systems and applications. The full range of hardware and software including high performance SAN, ESX VirtualCentre, VMotion and P2V Assistant can be demonstrated.
For more information:
Please contact DSS on 1800 300 403 or e-mail info@decision.ie specifying your interest in the virtualisation assessment or to speak to a representative in more detail about your requirements.