Six Steps to Virtualization Planning Webcast
May 2009

Why Proper Candidate Selection, Workload Analysis, Detailed Constraint Analysis, Solution Design, Implementation and Process Improvement are Critical to Success

The proper planning of virtualization initiatives is essential to success. There are several core steps to this process that are intuitive to most, including sizing workloads and migrating servers and applications onto virtual infrastructure. These steps, however, are not sufficient to properly mitigate risk and to ensure that lessons learned from each phase are applied to subsequent implementations. This session will describe a six step process that also includes rigorous candidate qualification, detailed workload and constraint analysis, solution design, implementation, and constant process improvement.  By applying these steps to virtualization initiatives the resulting environments are not only properly sized but are also compliant with business policies, tuned to specific risk tolerances, SLA requirements,  and guided by lessons learned in previous implementation phases.  The overall result is lower risk, higher efficiency and ultimately more rapid adoption of virtualization.

In this session you will learn:

How to identify servers that may be risky or inappropriate to virtualize
How to analyze business, risk and growth variations to optimize design
How to manage, track and improve the implementation process

Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s CTO & Co-Founder

39.3MB - WMV Format