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Assess

The first phase of any virtualisation project is to assess the utilisation of the existing environment and check for virtualisation candidate suitability.

Industry averages show that average utilisation of x86 hardware in the datacentre is still less than 7%. We have been involved in over 130 different assessments and our current record holder had an average utilization of less than 1% across two datacentres, which when put in real world perspective meant each application would comfortably run on an Apple iPhone. Inevitably as technology manufacturers focus on creating faster systems the associated utilisation and ROI decreases and in recent years this has become a continuing process.

Our Virtualisation Assessment Service has been tailored to provide maximum reporting on existing environments and enables IT to make business decisions based on facts and not estimations. We appreciate there are a variety of tools on the market all of which we are fully certified, however it must be noted that certain tools provide a considerably deeper level of monitoring and reporting and provide sufficient information to begin to prepare a business case for consolidation.

We offer our Assessment expertise in three packaged Assessment Service offerings:

vReady Assessment (No Charge)

Platform-agnostic virtualization readiness assessment service designed to help you take the first step towards virtualization by assessing physical desktops and servers. At the end of a two-week data collection period you will receive a free report covering IT infrastructure hardware, operating systems and utilization trends across desktops and servers.

To register and immediately commence your own free assessment simply click here: https://www.lanamark.com/Portal/virtualage/Customers.aspx

vConsolidate Assessment

Most organisations understand the technical benefits of virtualisation. However how do you then translate these into real cost savings and benefits that be easily and confidently translated and presented to the board or senior management in a way that’s easy for everyone to understand?

The vConsolidate service covers all aspects of your data centre and the desktop estate. This is not just a resource utilisation exercise and covers all aspects of the IT infrastructure. We assess and present back information on the following:

• x86 Windows and Linux servers
• Desktops and laptops
• Back up
• Storage
• Applications and licensing
• Business continuity and service class definitions (RTO and RPO)
• Future state scenario’s based on different hardware and hypervisors
• Reference architecture
• Recommendations and next steps
• Projected cost and power savings 

We can help build a very strong business case with a projected ROI, we use tangible proven methods of gathering this information and can help sculpt and design a solution that will meet all of your business needs for now and into the future.

Our VAS and business case services are designed to maximise your investment and return your investment in the shortest possible time. 

vEnterprise Assessment

Our vEnterprise assessment service expands the vConsolidate assessment to also include:

• Solaris monitoring
• Sparc Solaris to virtual x86 Solaris migration scenario modelling
• Sparc Solaris to virtual x86 Linux migration scenario modelling (massive Sparc HW and SW maintenance savings)
• Site links and data replication
• Database consolidation including 64 bit modelling
• Electronic Messaging and mobile services (BES, ActiveSync)
• Security Pre and post virtualisation
• DCIE – Datacentre Infrastructure Efficiency compromising:
• Datacentre PUE – Power Usage Efficiency
• Environmental Recommendations 
• Total Power Consumption (broken down per rack or device)
• Post-virtualisation DC scenario design

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