Virtual Infrastructure Planning & Design

Good planning leads to better outcomes! Migrating to a Virtual Infrastructure provides an important opportunity to achieve demonstrable business benefits; it also represents a significant change in IT Architecture and Operations Management i.e. not only consolidation of the server estate, but also the underlying infrastructure: storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery.

Proper planning is important with any major transformation programme, all the more so when that programme is designed to support the critical applications of the business!

The ‘Virtual Infrastructure Planning & Design Service’ is designed to ensure that customers maximise their Return on the Investment they have made in their Virtual Infrastructure by implementing once and once only - avoiding the potential for future performance bottlenecks, costly downtime and implementation re-work

To ensure that the benefits from Virtualisation are realised and that your Virtual Infrastructure is able to provide a platform to accommodate future organisational growth, Alpha will plan and construct a customised Virtual Infrastructure implementation according to ‘best practice, aligned with your specific requirements. At the end of the project, you will have a complete blueprint to steer you forward to ensure that you have a successful Virtual Infrastructure to meet your needs.

Target Audience

This services is relevant to organisations that are scaling their Virtual Infrastructure beyond a Proof-of-Concept, into a Production environment and have already undertaken a Virtual Infrastructure Capacity Planning Assessment or Infrastructure Optimisation Strategy Assessment.

Scope

• Kick-Off Workshop
• Review VI Capacity Planning requirements
• Agree requirements for Target Architecture
• Confirm Consolidation Candidates
• Analyse design constrains and dependencies
• Work jointly with customer’s core team thru iterative design process
• Document and review 

Deliverables

• Design enablement knowledge transfer workshop 
• Implementation of a prototype VI environment consisting of two VMware ESX™ hosts, one VirtualCenter™ Server and VMware Converter™ (based upon scope and available hardware)
• Virtualisation capacity and financial analysis
• VMware Infrastructure design documents: 
  » VI Architectural Design 
  » VI Assembly and Configuration Guide
  » VI Standard Procedures
  » VI Test Plan
  » VI Roll-out Plan

Key Benefits

• Optimise your VMware Infrastructure environment 
• Avoid implementation pitfalls that can stall or slow your deployment 
• Accelerate the return on investment of virtualising your environment

Dependencies

• Prior completion of a Virtual Infrastructure Capacity Planning Assessment or Infrastructure Optimisation Strategy Assessment

For further information on this service please contact us using the Contact Form or Call Free on 0800 112 3282.