Robyn Weisman from Processor Magazine posted a good article on best practices and key points for consolidating and or moving data center workloads. Here is an excerpt but you can read the full story here on processor.com
Key Points
• Careful planning and having a detailed overview of how the move will proceed will help you avoid problems.
• Make sure you have reliable backups so that you can failover to that backup or restore lost files in the event of a complication and steer clear of having a single point of failure.
• Rank the importance of your applications to avoid serious downtime with the mission-critical ones and to preserve application performance.
“Server and storage virtualization is one of the primary drivers for reorganizing your data center, but you want to make sure that once you have made the move or consolidation, you haven’t inadvertently caused a single point of failure, explains Brace Rennels, technical marketing manager at data protection solutions provider Double-Take Software (www.doubletake.com).
“When physical server workloads are consolidated to a smaller, more efficient virtual host, there is an issue of all of the virtual guests residing on the same physical server, as well as sharing the same shared storage,” says Rennels.
For his part, Rennels recommends finding a software solution that enables you to provide live migrations of entire virtual host workloads to keep your systems highly available. “The solution should be flexible enough to be able to easily move those workloads across greater distances for disaster recovery in the event of sustained disaster at the primary data center,” he says.
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Filed under: Dynamic Infrastructure | Tagged: Disaster Recovery, Double-Take Software, Hyper-V, backup, Data Center, Workload Optimization, Workload Availability, workload flexibility, workload migration
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