• Virtualisation & Consolidation
  • What is Virtualisation?
  • Server Consolidation
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
  • Storage
  • Application Virtualisation

• Learn more about NetApp and storage efficiency

Storage

One of the largest capital investments and highest risks in a virtual infrastructure project is the design and choice of shared storage platform. Deciding on the right product for your requirements will determine the ultimate scalability or even limitation of the infrastructure and associated savings delivered by the virtual infrastructure.

The first and critical step is effective and measured sizing of the correct storage workloads. It is fundamentally more important than just sizing the computing resources and its considerably cheaper to upgrade or change a server as opposed to upgrading or changing an entire storage infrastructure due to unforeseen changes and demands. Virtual Age has delivered many complex storage projects using feature rich set storage technologies for the provisioning, management and protection of data in a server, desktop or application virtualisation project.

Many organisations are realising the benefits of provisioning virtual machines over NFS, CIFS, FC or iSCSI on a single storage devices such as NetApp. Virtual Age are able to integrate the leading orchestration tools to call upon storage infrastructure to provide complete integration of business process for the cradle to grave management of virtual and physical storage resources.

The time invested in selecting and designing the right solution and configuration will pay dividends in the long term plan of business agility.

Based on customer request we have developed our storage sizing questionnaire which is available on request and covers topics such as:

• Server host type and connectivity
• Workload sizing (e.g. exchange mailboxes etc)
• Performance & Quality of Service
• Application Awareness (SQL, Exchange, Oracle)
• Snap Shots, Backup, Replication etc
• RTO, RPO or services to the business (not just VM’s of volumes)

The storage questionnaire covers all of your requirements and points that perhaps have not even been considered and may become constraints later in the project. To receive the storage questionnaire please click here.