De-Risk Data Center Consolidation
De-Risk Data Center Consolidation with Storage Optimization Best Practices
Information can be the most valuable asset to any organization of any size. As a result, the amount of data that is being stored and the amount of time it is kept online is growing rapidly, while the resources to manage it are not. This presents a considerable challenge to companies and government agencies striving to control the exploding costs of IT, and storage administrators tasked with storing, managing, and protecting the data. Consolidation of storage systems, as a component of data center consolidation, is being considered by more and more people as a way to address this challenge.
Virtual Instruments offers a comprehensive infrastructure optimization solution that holistically assesses the entire physical and/or virtual infrastructure, and provides the IT staff with the data necessary to make intelligent decisions about capacity, utilization, and performance for every layer of the I/O infrastructure – to help speed and de-risk your consolidation or migration project.
Our consolidation best practices include:
- Install real-time I/O monitoring and measurement and baseline your current environment
- Create an application profile that characterizes infrastructure performance
- Optimize storage tiering strategy based on measured performance
- Ensure high availability by monitoring the entire consolidation process
- Accelerate problem resolution with real-time data on the changing infrastructure
- Optimally provision the storage network via historical traffic analysis
- Migrate to a private cloud once performance and availability SLAs can be measured
Real-time proactive monitoring, measurement, correlation, and alerting enables high consolidation rates without impacting performance as your infrastructure changes. It enables a true SLA, and changes in demand and performance can be detected long before users are impacted. With VirtualWisdom’s "what if" capabilities, IT staff can provide extremely accurate forecasts by using actual historical data and applying configuration changes to that data. Running reports that show latency and throughput enable the comparison and recommendation of other storage options that balance utilization and result in faster and less risky consolidation.
Download our Consolidation Best Practices Whitepaper, and this article on building a more energy efficient data center for more information.
