Cloud Infrastructure :
The 4Base Solutions
Technologies from innovative leaders like VMware and Cisco can
have a profoundly positive impact on IT service delivery, continuity
and cost. But as with any transformative technologies, the adoption
can be greatly influenced by an organization’s preparedness. Failure
to execute a gap analysis prior to wide-scale deployment of virtual
infrastructure often leads to a halt in the project while remediation
strategies are considered. This in turn can lead to a loss of momentum
and ultimately a negative perception of a virtual infrastructure initiative.
Solution offerings include:
Cloud Infrastructure Assessment
The Virtualization Assessment is a method used to identify
existing candidates for server consolidation and produce a TCO/ROI
analysis to justify the virtualization project. Using the Virtualization
Assessment the tool Capacity Planner may be leveraged to identify
ideal candidates based on server characteristics and performance data.
VI Jumpstart
The VI Jumpstart will provide a customer personalized
and informative guided tour of VI capabilities within their environment.
During the initial planning stages lots of questions will need to
be addressed relating to customer specifics, thus having a consultant
available to address important matters and provide best practices
with respect to VI running in their environment.
P2V & P2C Jumpstart
The P2V/P2C Jumpstart is a two day workshop that introduces
customers to the methodology to migrated existing physical servers
into a virtualized public or private environment in the form of virtual
machines. In addition, it covers the migration of Virtual Machines
from/to different platforms.
Lab Manager Jumpstart
The Lab Manager workshop presents customers with a guided
tour of VMware Lab Manager. We install two ESX server hosts, one Virtual
Center Server, and one Lab Manager Server to facilitate the tour.
VI Upgrade Workshop
The VI Upgrade workshop helps existing customers of
VMware ESX server who plan to upgrade to the current version of VMware
Infrastructure understand the differences between the versions, procedures,
and issues that should be taken into consideration. An upgrade will
be performed of up to two ESX server hosts and one Virtual Center
Server, as a proof of concept along with a brief tour of the current
VMware Infrastructure new features.
VDI Jumpstart
The VDI Jumpstart workshop provides customers with a
guided tour of VMware View. Two VDM connection servers and one
security server are installed to facilitate this tour. To demonstrate
the capabilities and features of View, one desktop and desktop pool
is created
Server Consolidation & Capacity Planning Analysis: More
than a technology, enterprise consolidation is – or should be – a
strategic system-wide approach that encompasses several technologies
and also involves corporate finance, executive management and, of
course, corporate politics. IT managers and executives who are in
a position to look up from the short-term crisis in front of them
to the long-term changes that are being put in place through consolidation
are in a position to have a game changing impact on their organizations
VI Plan and Design
The VI Plan and Design delivers a comprehensive design
and documentation related to the customer’s environment. Customers
want to ensure consistency when deploying VI into their environments
and having a Plan and Design helps identify all the variables and
considerations prior to a deployment.
VI Health Check
The VI Health Check is conducted annually to provide feedback to a
customer regarding if their environment is running optimally and
is configured per best practices. The Health Check provides a report
card of the overall configuration, usage observed against the industries
best practices, and able to address questions regarding how best
to go about resolving them.
Virtual Operational Readiness: Delivers
a high-level assessment of an IT environment’s capability to successfully
support cloud infrastructure technology. As is common with most
transformative technologies or processes, many cloud initiatives are
not properly planned for prior to broad deployment. This often
results in the initiative coming to a halt as unexpected issues arise
and remediation is sought. Such a result also tends to lead
to a loss of momentum and negative perception of virtual infrastructure
distracting stakeholders from the true value of the technology. The
assessment is designed to identify common pitfalls associated with
virtual infrastructure before they occur allowing the IT organization
to smoothly execute the technology rollout and maximize the cost savings
full extensibility of virtualization to drive their business.
Operational Readiness Assessment
The Operational Readiness Assessment can be considered
Phase I of the OR process and seeks to ensure that the VI adoption
throughout an organization is not hindered by political or organizational
challenges. This service will help identify capabilities and procedures
that are impacted by virtualization and the maturity levels needed
to successfully implement and maintain the VI.
Operational Readiness Assurance
The Operational Readiness Assurance should be considered
Phase II of the OR process and seeks to ensure the VI adoption throughout
an organization is not hindered by process and organizational challenges.
This service will help remediate the specifically identified Functional
Areas which may be impacted by virtualization and the maturity levels
required to successfully implement and maintain the VI.
DR Planning & Optimization: Tie application
and hardware independent recovery plans to your overall business continuance
strategy. Increase process automation, coverage and test capabilities.
Recover failed systems in seconds not hours. Increase availability
by clustering between physical and virtual machines, consolidating
failover hardware.
Business Continuity Jumpstart with SRM
The Business Continuity workshop adds Site Recovery
Manager (SRM) to VI Jumpstart or VI Upgrade. With the introduction
of business continuity concepts, considerations to increase high availability,
backup and recovery Virtual Machines, and planning for recovery, this
service covers the entire spectrum of virtualized BC-DR.
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