Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management

Mohamed Elrefai, Vice President Enterprise Solutions Group

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What is TLM?

A long-term, strategic methodology for acquiring, financing, and managing technology

Aligns technology, services, and management of the IT infrastructure to business objectives

Enables government agencies to realize the full benefit of the technology assets

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Identify and Assess

Decouple Application and End-User Requirements from Infrastructure

First Step Toward Optimization is to Build Baseline – Capacity Driven

Build Business Case – High Level Design

─ Anticipate costs and benefits

Build a Detailed Solution for the short and long term

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Technology Acquisition

Decouple IT Imperatives from Traditional Budget Constraints

Create a Performance Based Services Contract

Provision Capacity Based on Service Level Agreements

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Integrate and Implement

Traditional Integration Methods Apply

─ Re-host Legacy Applications

Tuning Consolidation Ratio and Server Utilization

Measuring Quality of Service

Tuning Application Specific Performance

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Support Services

Quarterly Audits – Capacity Driven─ Retire more servers

─ Further Consolidation

─ Power and Cooling

─ Hosted Applications Assessment

Configuration Optimization Ongoing onsite Engineer/Support

─ Backup and Restore

Maintenance─ Break/fix Support

─ Synchronize Maintenance Contracts

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Technology Refresh

Technological Rate of Change─ Blade Servers

─ 64-bit Extensions

─ Dual-Core

─ Virtualization Hardware Assist

Assess historical performance and usage requirements─ Establish and manage refresh

schedule

Refresh end of the lifecycle hardware

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Asset Disposal

Avoid disposal costs cutting into operating budgets

Employ best methods for data destruction

Comply with security, environmental, and DoD requirements and regulations

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