Dell's Virtualization Assessment Services
Date
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16/09/2009
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 in which 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?
Potential Benefits of Dell's Virtualization Assessment Services:
- 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 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.

