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Assessing Candidate Servers for Virtualization
Info-Tech Research Group, Jan 2008, Pages: 4
We recommend that a comprehensive review and assessment of all current server assets should be undertaken as a prerequisite to virtual server implementation. This tool includes a ten-assumption questionnaire to measure business and operational readiness of the IT department. It also includes a server by server data entry sheet to gather information on server utilization.
The critical differentiators for Technical Assessment are the four utilization metrics of processor, memory, storage and network I/O. These define whether a candidate is suitable or not. Beyond these differentiators, candidates that are end of life and those with legacy single processor configuration are even better candidates.
The Business/Operational Assessment is differentiated by the score on the questionnaire plus the application owner. Scores must be high (7 to 10) in order for an externally owned server to get the green light. The bar is set high for externally owned servers. If a candidate server or its application is owned external to IT, the score in this questionnaire must be 7 or higher for the assessment to give that server a green light.
Use this tool to both prioritize servers for virtualization as well as to understand what needs to be done in planning and process development in order to move to a majority virtualized environment. Regardless of near term plans, machine virtualization will increasingly become standard for x86 server infrastructures in the future.
This downloadable tool is associated with the research note, 'Business and Operational Assessment for Virtual Server Implementation.'
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