Server Consolidation
Server consolidation can be a great cost savings for legacy servers. With server consolidation your legacy server hardware can be upgraded to more efficient and economical machines. As a result of upgrading to newer, more stable and faster hardware your business will be cutting monthly operating expenditures and possibly saving you space in your data center. When consolidating servers the original OS license is preserved.
Simply put, if you have four or more servers that are four or more years old you should consider server consolidation.
Legacy server operating systems, such as those based on Windows 2000 Server, often cannot be installed directly onto current hardware. The option of taking system data backups and restoring them onto a nice new server simply doesn’t work anymore. Too many hardware advances have occurred to allow hardware vendors to support the legacy operating systems. Virtualization provides a solution to this problem by isolating the OS from the underlying hardware.
Through a partnership with XenSource and Microsoft MIS Center can provide your company with excellent options for server consolidation, including some free versions of their hypervisors. Our professionals will help your company review the options available, evaluate your existing environment and map out a plan to get the old servers revitalized and virtualized.
When existing servers have been consolidated your disaster recovery plans can be updated and improved.
Additionally, our engineers will help identify performance bottlenecks in your original servers and ensure that the virtual environment is capable of delivering acceptable or improved performance. Sizing the new server for a consolidation project is critical as some applications place high demands on specific server components. Specifically, mail servers and databases place high demands on the disk subsystem. Placing such applications onto an un-tuned virtual server can be disastrous.
Server consolidation can be complex and often requires a thorough system analysis. Our professionals are IT industry leading experts with numerous years of experience who will ensure that your system consolidation is successful.