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- VMware
- Virtualization Assessment
- Windows Server Assessment
- Storage Assessment
- EqualLogic SAN
- Software Selection
VMware Installation,Optimization & Training
- Planning:
- Assess the virtualization of current physical system environment and determine optimal physical VM host requirements.
- Assess current network infrastructure including network switch and router needs.
- Write Technical Design Document recommending VMware infrastructure for existing and new IT resources configured in the VM environment.
- Installation:
- Optional: Rack appropriate VMware host servers and network equipment.
- Build out and test VMware host servers (ESX) and VMware Virtual Center server.
- Configure VMware infrastructure for high available (HA) and dynamic resource scheduling (DRS) if environment supports this.
- Create and install at least one virtual machine (VM).
- Optional: System migration.
- Write a migration plan to move existing physical servers to VMs (P2V). Include new server build-outs as required.
- Perform P2V migration.
- Testing:
- Write a Production Acceptance Plan
- Verify install & configuration meets documented plans.
- Training:
- Install and configure VMware Virtual Center server
- Install and configure VMware ESX & ESXi
- Creating a VM guest
- Manage HA and DRS environments if supported.
- Create and manage clusters, resource pools, and management access.
- Migrating applications and servers from a standalone server to a VM guest.
Virtualization Assessment
- Inventory
- Assess current datacenter systems
- Identify individual system suitability to virtualization.
- Identify natural datacenter resource divisions.
- Identify system resource consumption – cpu, memory, network, and storage.
- Assess current network infrastructure.
- Assess current storage infrastructure.
- Assess current datacenter systems
- Requirements gathering
- Determine backup recovery scenarios.
- Determine server availability and fault tolerance needs.
- Determine optimal division or consolidation of application services.
- Report and Design
- Document systems inventory.
- Document requirements.
- Design a VMware virtual infrastructure leveraging existing infrastructure wherever possible.
- Design appropriate network improvements to support the virtual infrastructure.
- Design appropriate storage improvements to support the virtual infrastructure.
- Document infrastructure expected availability and fault tolerance.
Windows Server Assessment
- Individual machine monitoring
- CPU usage
- Memory usage
- Network usage
- Disk usage
- Installed software, proper division of labor among servers, and best practice adherence.
- Log monitoring
- Check server uptime.
- Check for unexpected reboots and hardware failures
- Check for application faults.
- Miscellaneous verifications as applicable
- Proper access controls
- Disk fragmentation
- RAID monitoring
- Cooling fans, internal temperatures, and other hardware integrity issues.
- Shared directories
- Security issues such as virus and malware issues, system updates and patches, and proper network security practices.
Storage Assessment
- Monitor current usage:
- Assess system and application storage requirements for
- Capacity
- Data access types
- Bandwidth / IOPs
- Assess any current SAN infrastructure including network switch and router needs
- Assess system and application storage requirements for
- Asses future needs:
- Assess planned growth and application installations
- Determine data growth rate and subsequent storage capacity requirements
- Determine data access growth rate
- Storage Assessment Report
- Document current usage assessment
- Document future needs
- Correlate current and future needs with existing infrastructure
- Document recommended changes, utilizing existing infrastructure where possible
EqualLogic SAN Implementation, Optimization & Training
- Planning:
- Assess system and application storage requirements for capacity, and data types.
- Assess current or new SAN infrastructure including network switch and router needs.
- Write a Technical Design Document recommending optimum EqualLogic and network configuration.
- Installation:
- Optional: Rack appropriate SAN and network equipment.
- Build out and test EqualLogic SAN and network equipment.
- Provision and install SAN storage on at least 1 Windows Server (more servers and other OS’s negotiable).
- Optional - Data migration:
- Write a plan for migrating existing storage to the SAN.
- Perform data migration from existing storage to SAN.
- Testing:
- Write Production Acceptance Plan
- Verify install & configuration meets documented plans.
- Training:
- EqualLogic SAN configuration
- SAN logical volume creation and provisioning
- SAN volume snapshot overview & scheduling
- SAN device health monitoring
- Host machine optimal iSCSI install & configuration
Software Selection and Implementation
- Business and IT Alignment Phase
- Collect Business Requirements
- Map End-to-End Process
- Quantify Business Benefits
- Establish Project Governance
- Develop Execution Plan
- Process Design and System Selection Phase
- Document “As-is” Processes
- Assess Systems Fit
- Design “To-Be” Processes and Optimal Systems Configurations
- Define Systems Requirements for Process Enablement
- Create RFP if need to engage other firms
- Coordinate Demos if needed
- Conduct Gap Analysis
- Select Vendor if needed
- Implementation Phase
- Perform Implementation Planning
- Refine Business Requirements
- Design Business & IT Solutions
- Build/Configure Systems
- Perform Testing & User Training
- Deploy Solutions
PugetTech’s technical and project management expertise and VCI’s process re-engineering and data analytics capabilities have been combined to offer our clients one of the most comprehensive software selection and implementation services. Because we are not affiliated with any specific software vendor, we are uniquely qualified to provide unbiased recommendations on the solutions that best fit our client’s business goals and budget.