Data center relocations and server migrations bring clear advantages. They reduce IT costs, support compliance with government and industry regulations, and enhance disaster recovery. Yet such moves are often fraught with risk. Local users become remote users, impacting application performance, increased transaction times put significant additional strain on processing resources, and critical services can be disrupted during transitional stages of the move. The impact of such moves on service levels – and on the business – should therefore not be underestimated. Yet it often it is.
That’s why it’s critical for network planners, enterprise architects and business application owners to understand — in advance — exactly how data center or server moves will impact performance and availability. Only with this precise understanding can they plan and execute such moves and consolidations in a way that will avoid service disruption and their potentially disastrous consequences.
Accurately Predict the Impact on Data Center Relocation and Server Migration
Shunra VE helps you address these critical concerns before you move a single server, ensuring the success of your data center relocations and server
migrations. Shunra accurately predicts application performance from the end-user’s perspective for all remote locations. It also enables project teams to experiment with “what if” scenarios as they plan and execute data center moves or server relocations.
With Shunra VE, you and your team can:
- Accurately predict the impact of data center relocation and server migration on end-users
- Determine optimal server locations and configurations for each application
- Determine inter-server dependencies to create a staged move plan and identify which servers must be moved together
- Determine if any modification to network infrastructure is necessary
- Determine whether techniques such as terminal services or WAN optimization will effectively resolve potential performance issues
- Discover application design issues that might make data center relocation problematic
- Validate disaster recovery and business continuity plans
- Determine the performance consequences of moving servers for specific applications, such as Microsoft Exchange® and Active Directory®
- Demonstrate projected application service levels to business managers and users
Shunra minimizes the risk associated with data center relocation and server
migrations, ensuring that end-user performance expectations are met. With Shunra VE, you can prevent unanticipated relocation and migration problems from nullifying the cost savings promised by such projects – and confidently avoid unforeseen service-level disasters.
For more information about how Shunra's solutions can help you ensure the success of your data center relocation or server consolidation project before you move a single server, please complete this QuickContact form.