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Transformational Analytics: Virtualizing IT Environments
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Consolidating Workloads
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“Now What?” Successful Strategies for Optimizing Virtual Infrastructure
May 14, 2008, 12:00-1:00 pm EST
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Gartner IT Infrastructure,
Operations & Management Summit
June 23-25, 2008 - Orlando, FL
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Professional Services
CiRBA is dedicated to ensuring that your organization’s consolidation and virtualization strategy is optimized. Leveraging a proven methodology, deployment, analytical, and planning services are available through our own professional services staff or a variety of services partners that provide a full spectrum of related analysis and consolidation and virtualization capabilities.
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CiRBA’s Methodology
CiRBA employs a proven methodology for analyzing complex environments with hundreds to thousands of servers and mapping the best consolidation strategies and targets. CiRBA’s ten step process guides organizations through key decision points in planning consolidation initiatives to meet your organization’s objectives and reduce the risk of consolidation.
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Steps & Important Considerations
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Output
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| 1. Establish Scope and Goals |
- Data center consolidation vs. server consolidation
- High-level business-oriented system attributes
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Target
Environments
and Strategies |
2. Attribute-Driven
Macro Analysis |
- Import business attributes - location, role, environment, primary application
- Intersection analysis against high-level business constraints
- Prioritize high-level regions of environment
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Prioritized
Regions |
3. Gather
Detailed
Intelligence |
- Audit/import configurations (integrated audit process)
- Audit/import workloads
- Audit content gap analysis to determine data completeness
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Populated
Repository |
4. Data-Driven
Macro Analysis |
- Per-region aggregate utilization (gives maximum consolidation potential)
- Visualization of OS and business boundaries
- Establish absolute and negotiated constraints
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Subregions
Relative
to Strategies |
| 5. Micro Analysis |
- Risk assessment - identifies risk points in existing infrastructure
- Multi-strategy analysis process - databases, middleware (on residual) - virtualization, OS stacking, zones (on residual)
- Lifecycle-specific approaches - in-place “scavenging” onto existing gear - refresh-based analysis (onto hypothetical server models)
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Detailed Transfer Functions and
Remediation Plans |
6. Technology
Decision Point |
- Target server vendors, blade strategy, VM technologies
- Database and middleware standardization
- Standard OS configurations/builds (uniformity promotion)
- Hardware and OS technology migration plans
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Go-forward SOE (Hardware, OS,
Applications) |
7. Business/
Application Owner
Engagement |
- Data-driven discussion of plan and impact
- Review absolute constraints
- Refine negotiated constraints and iterate if necessary
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Approved
Transfer
Functions |
8. Server
Consolidation
Implementation |
- Analysis “snapshot refresh” to ensure data currency
- Remediation of specific server settings
- Staging and vetting of new configurations
- Implementation via internal resources or services partners
- Process control (PMO, change/release management)
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Consolidated
Environment |
9. Data Center
Consolidation |
- Pre-consolidation to minimize heat, power and swing gear requirements
- Overall move strategy (swing, lift and move, net new)
- Validation of target environment
- Further consolidation of combined servers
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Consolidated
Data Centers |
10. Ongoing
Optimization |
- Post-implementation review - effectiveness of strategies - modeled vs. actual patterns and overheads - potential tuning issues
- Ongoing forward consolidation, rebalancing, deconsolidation
- Image cataloging and virtual environment management
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Repeatable
Process with
Lasting Benefits |
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Consolidation and Virtualization Execution
CiRBA’s services partners are not only qualified to assist in analysis, but also provide world class capabilities in the execution of CiRBA generated roadmaps.
For more information on these and other solutions, please contact us or visit our
partner page.
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