Dell Virtualization Assessment Services

Do the following questions relate to your server infrastructure?

• Do you need to review data center capacity availability and future space requirements?
• Is your data center increasingly consuming more energy, relative to infrastructure deployed?
• Are business demands for server capacity outstripping budget?
• Have you ever had a major infrastructure project delay due to unexpected problems or stakeholder disagreements?
• Would your IT team benefit from a collaborative approach where they have a say in design decisions?
• Would your management team appreciate a reliable plan with management checkpoints and controls to meet schedules and budgets?

The potential benefits of our Virtualization Assessment services include being able to:

• Obtain a complete understanding of your current system capacity and utilization, and create models for the future.
• Decide which workloads to virtualize.
• Potentially reduce energy requirements and manage data center space more efficiently.
• Evaluate alternative virtualization platforms and determine target consolidation ratios.
• Use the return on investment (ROI) model to determine a realistic budget and prepare to measure results.
• Identify the virtualization impact on storage, networking and data center space, as well as on power and cooling.
• Establish a roadmap to determine, from initial implementation, how your server infrastructure will scale to meet business demand.