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Accumulating servers is a bit like accumulating grown up children that won’t leave home. Either way at some stage we demand they justify the real-estate they occupy and the resources they consume. If you are planning a consolidation project, Generation-e can help with our new VMWare Virtual Server Capacity Planning service.
Why Consolidate?
Multiple servers often are the result of technology inherited over a long period of time. This means an assortment of servers of different ages, brands, abilities, capacities. If the collective system is not optimised it can mean considerable costs in maintenance, upgrades, power consumption, availability (which affects downtime and user productivity), as well as disaster recovery.
For example, you may find out old hardware is running at close to 100% of capacity. You could upgrade this to a new server and run it at 20% capacity instead. Then you can consider what to do with the other 80%.
The benefits of server consolidation are many:
- Increase utilisation of existing hardware from 10-15% up to 80%
- Improve performance
- Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better
- Save money on hardware, maintenance and power consumption
- Implement disaster recovery plans
- Improve ROI on new hardware purchased
About the Service
Generation-e’s VMWare Virtual Server Capacity Planning Service is simple.
Step 1 Analyse Server Utilisation
We first assess server utilisation by installing special software on each server. Over a 2-4 week period we are able to get a picture how your network functions.
Step 2 Compile Consolidation Report
Our engineer will then compile a consolidation report with recommendations on which servers to consolidate. In some cases companies are able to remove 50-80% of their servers. The report also outlines how much power saving you can achieve by doing so.
Step 3 Recommend Hardware Upgrades
Depending on how much of the report you wish to implement, we will then work with you to upgrade any hardware.
Click here to book this service or call 1300 553 088 for more information.
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