Virtualisation and Consolidation
Many organisations are attempting to reduce ICT costs through consolidation. Virtualisation technologies are often employed as an enabler for consolidation programmes. Hence, virtualisation is increasingly becoming the standard model for many aspects of information technology. Storage, network, desktop and application virtualisation continue to increase in popularity whilst a focus on reducing data centre costs has resulted in much progress in server virtualisation technologies such as VMware Virtual Infrastructure, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, Solaris 10 Containers and the IBM PowerVM.The Virtualisation and Consolidation service helps the customer realise the benefits of these new virtualisation technologies deal with the dramatic impact this will have on the processes, resources and infrastructure needed to manage a modern complex IT environment.
Need
- Reduce spending on hardware
- Reduce data centre space, power and cooling costs
- Reduce software licensing costs due to growth in hardware requirements
- Reduce server management costs
- Maintain service levels
- Obtain meaningful resource utilisation data from within virtualised operating systems
- Real difficulty in presenting resource utilisation data for consolidated or virtualised systems meaningfully
- Incorporate data from proprietary management tools
- Increased analysis required to managing and maintain the hardware estate
- Establishing resource management principles such as CPU shares and Resource Pools
Our staff are skilled at understanding how systems perform across a wide range of platforms; thereby delivering considerable added value when compared to our competitor’s platform-based services. We understand data centre cost and financial management systems allowing modelling of the financial impact of proposed changes.
Capacitas offers a comprehensive virtualisation and consolidation service, comprising the following activities:
- Determine which applications/services are good candidates for virtualisation or consolidation
- Determine which applications/services can co-exist from a capacity and performance perspective
- Size the hardware resource requirements of new environments
- Establish a set of metrics to monitor to allow effective management of the environment
- Propose resource management policies and configurations
- Predict the effect on service levels
- Estimate cost savings
- Forecast internal cross-charging charges
Features & Benefits
Delivering Results:
- Reduce costs
- Understand and manage the virtualised and consolidated environments
- Reduce service level impacting incidents
- Reduce risk of service availability issues
Flexible Resourcing:
- Multiple staff can be used as-and-when needed, enabling the customer to increase or decrease resource requirements quickly and cost-effectively
- Unlike permanent staff or contractors, Capacitas staff are only used when then are needed; meaning there are no on-going charges
- Work can be conducted either on-site or off-site when appropriate
Value-for-Money:
- Our team consists of both junior and senior performance analysts, thereby creating an average daily rate comparable with contract staff
Pragmatic Approach:
- Conduct analysis using customer’s existing tools or standard system/application performance utilities rather than purchasing additional tools
- Analysis can be done rapidly to meet customer’s time and budget requirements
Cost and Service Focussed Expertise:
- Ability to understand system capacity and performance metrics across a wide range of platforms
- Ability to interpret what the metrics mean in terms service/application performance
- Ability to understand the implications of service of cost-reduction
- Ability to understand the cost implications of changes to service levels
Example Customers
- BUPA
- PGDS
Next Steps
- Review the Resources section on this page
- To email for further information click here
- Call our offices on +44 (0) 20 7841 9950 to arrange a meeting
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