Does your datacenter \ room \ closet bring on anxiety? Are pictures of it on wikipedia’s chaos definition page??
If so….VIRTUALIZATION is the primary cure!!!!
Below are pictures from a recently completed project. Do you need help???
Before Virtualization – Several racks of equipment with no way to get to the server without risk of causing an issue because of bad wiring, old servers with no way to get spare parts, network rack with spaghetti wiring with no way to track source and destination, power cord death traps, and on and on and on:
AND NOW…..The AFTER – No detailed descriptions needed.
- The installation of several IBM high performance servers with full fault tolerance end to end
- Cables labeled and color coded depending upon traffic
- Redundant switches (fibre and ethernet)
- Management and Lan traffic physically seperate
- Redundant power
- Keyboard Video Mouse over IP
- Redundant Network based, Out of Band, Systems Management
- 8Gb Fibre Network
- High Speed Fibre Optic Tape Library
- Etc, etc, etc…….
- ALL data replicated intra and inter site…between 6 locations….where 2 locations are in a state that borders the Gulf of Mexico….and 4 locations are in states that border the Great Lakes…..ENJOY!
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