Introduction
Building an accurate pipeline for server consolidation is often an under-funded and over-looked activity, which is strange because this is the life blood of the whole project and possibly future virtualization efforts.
How do you identify candidates that have a high chance of successful migration? It is more than just analyzing capacity data, it also involves politics and emotion, and a lean, mean consolidation machine to perform the, often, out-of-hours work.
Intended Audience
VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and VMware Architects (VCDX), and the management and finance teams who will support and fund the virtualization project.
Outline
Collect Capacity Data
Analyse Capacity Data
Run Consolidation Scenarios
Build Containment Forecast
Create Virtual Pipeline
Present findings
VI3 Virtual Pipeline
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1. Collect Capacity Data
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Running a full inventory
Gathering inventory and performance metrics
Registering the database ID
2. Analyse Capacity Data
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Create your candidate specifications, units and buckets
Allocating physical servers to candidate buckets
Create consolidation forecast plan
3. Run Consolidation Scenarios
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4. Build Containment Forecast
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Analysis of past projects, work in progress and roadmaps
Create candidate specifications, units and buckets
Create containment forecast plan
5. Create Virtual Pipeline
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Align both forecasts and map to planned resources and constraints
Review plan with technical, operational and end-user teams against requirements
Write the Virtual Pipeline documentation
6. Present findings
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Write the powerpoint presentation for management
Resources
AuthorsSteve Chambers, Senior Architect at VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 22,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). For more information, visit www.vmware.com.
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