ICT Consolidation
Given its potential to achieve significant cost savings, ICT consolidation is a common capacity planning challenge. The ICT Consolidation Service enables clients to confidently predict whether or not multiple workloads can be assigned to a consolidated infrastructure.As part of this service, Capacitas will work with the client to deliver the key components of the process:
- Defining the boundaries of the system under examination
- Building the business case for consolidation
- Defining the workload of the system through workload characterisation
- Identifying the business drivers of the systems
- Business forecasting
- SLA and QoS requirements review
- Modelling of the consolidated workload
- Defining volume and performance test scenarios
- Post migration performance analysis
Key Benefits
- Server consolidation provides the opportunity to reduce hardware support and maintenance costs, plus operating system and other licencing costs
- Large data centre environments can benefit from reductions in LAN port consumption, rack space requirements and the alleviation of power constraints
- Network service providers can employ consolidation to reduce network expenditure and other operating costs
- The service enables the client to clearly quantify the risk of consolidating a workload, allowing the service provider to carry out consolidation and realise the monetary savings, without jeopardising the performance or stability of business critical applications