HCL believes that every Datacenter Consolidation project should have well thought objectives after studying the client Infrastructure and requirements. HCL focuses on the following consolidation objectives:
Datacenter Consolidation Objectives:
- Improve service levels and/or lower costs
- Make strategic moves to or away from certain platform types
- Reduce staff levels or avoid further hiring
- Align systems with the enterprise's organization (segmenting)
- Relieve business managers of the responsibility for server management, so they can focus on business/other engineering/architecture issues
- Support systems added in a merger or acquisition (Datacenter Rationalization)
Datacenter Consolidation Methodology
Datacenter Consolidation Methodology HCL's Datacenter methodology is based upon the simple concepts of Assess, Architect, Implement, and Manage . In addition to these four phases, also included is a short, business-oriented assessment at the front end. This additional piece acts as a feasibility study which helps us to assess whether a Datacenter Consolidation is feasible or not. The following table shows the specific areas which HCL addresses during each of these phases:
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Feasibility
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Assessment
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Architecture
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Implementation
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Manage
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| Business Objective |
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Application |
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Application Groupings |
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Application |
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Enterprise Management |
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| Success Criteria |
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Server / OS |
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Server Architecture |
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Servers |
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Optimization |
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| Target Servers |
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Storage |
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Storage Architecture |
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Storage |
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Monitoring |
| Target Storage |
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Network |
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Network Architecture |
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Network |
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Infrastructure |
| TCO / ROI |
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Security |
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Security Architecture |
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Security |
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Security |
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Infrastructure |
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Infrastructure |
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Infrastructure |
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TCO / ROI |
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TCO / ROI |
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TCO / ROI |