How To Manage A Data Center Migration Service

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1 Data A Center Migration Service The Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service helps enterprises and service providers improve business agility, end-user experience, and total cost of ownership with minimal risk, complexity, and resource consumption. Optimizes Your Architecture and IT Investment While Mitigating Complexity and Risk Migration to a state-of-the-art data center is a strategic initiative that helps enterprises and service providers maintain market leadership, increase business agility, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), meet regulatory requirements, as well as plan for future growth. Since the data center is the mission-critical service delivery platform for businesses, migrating a data center and all its IT assets is a complex, largescale change management effort that imposes significant investment and risk. Successful data center migration should address business, architecture, and operational challenges within each layer and across the entire IT stack (Figure 1). These challenges include maintaining business continuity, migrating legacy and packaged application, preserving mission-critical data during migration, realizing virtualization opportunities, preventing security breaches, and realizing green opportunities around power and cooling Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information.

2 Figure 1: Data Center Migration Challenges and Approach As shown in Figure 1, a successful data center migration strategy involves: Orchestrating meticulously the complex move of mission-critical data center assets from one site to another site. These assets include business and operations support, legacy and commercial off-the-shelf business applications, multivendor servers, terabytes of data in various storage formats, and network devices and appliances, along with miles of cabling, racks, power, cooling, and other physical equipment. Helping to ensure business continuity, maintaining application performance and availability, and delivering operational service levels throughout the physical move with little or no margin of error for costly, unplanned service outages or performance degradation that can affect user experience. Mitigating these risks requires business, operation, technology, architecture, and strategy expertise, which can create steep learning curves for enterprises and service providers. Growing the investment value of the data center by evolving data center strategy to meet the business objectives. One must be keeping up with emerging data center technologies, assessing the architectural value of these technologies, and establishing a multiyear deployment strategy to make sure that the migrated data center continues to demonstrate high performance and remains current well into the future. With the Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service, enterprises and services providers can improve business agility, end-user experience, and TCO with minimal risk, complexity, and resource consumption effect. The service is based on state-of-theart data center architecture and strategy, data center thought leadership, industryproven migration methodology, distinguished capability, and best-in-class partnerships. Our service helps mitigate large-scale change risks and complexities and avoid schedule delays and initiative cost overruns Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information.

3 Migrate Your Data Center to High Value with Low Risk Whether you are moving all or just a portion of your data center, the Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service can mitigate risks and complexities, enabling a successful migration. A successful migration meets your strategic objectives within budget and on time and maximizes the value and return on investment of your new data center. Central to the Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service are the industry-proven Armada Networks data center migration methodologies (Figure 2). Figure 2: Data Center Migration Methodologies The methodologies feature several components: Discovery Move groups Migration strategy Risk analysis and mitigation plan Migration plan Migration implementation plan Program management office The methodologies are applied to each area across the entire IT stack, including business, application, server, storage, networks, facilities, and operational resources. This approach is designed to uncover migration-related risks and then to mitigate those risks early in the project lifecycle. It provides a repeatable level of success on large and complex data center migration initiatives. This holistic approach significantly reduces the project implementation time and provides a confident path to on-time completion. With our service, even a large-scale migration effort can be implemented with lower risk, in as short a time as possible and with optimum return on investment. See Table 1 for the service activities, deliverables, and benefits Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information.

4 Table 1. Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service Activities, Deliverables, and Benefits Activities and Deliverables Activity: Discovery Understand the primary business factors and objectives of the migration Discover end-to-end IT infrastructure assets within the data center, including business, application, server, networks, storage, facilities, and operation Discover critical asset interdependencies with industry-leading application dependency mapping Identify core business processes and critical applications Understand backup/restore, disaster recovery, operation management capabilities Understand service-level agreement (SLA) obligations and downtime windows Understand facilities and the target data center requirements Understand the change management processes Deliverable: IT infrastructure asset report Activity: Determine move groups Assess application and infrastructure interdependencies Benefits Helps align business objectives to the technical objectives of the migration Helps discover both physical and logical infrastructures to be migrated Helps establish holistic and forensic interdependencies between the various application, servers, storage, and networks Helps understand migration requirements and constraints Help establish service-level expectations so the data center migration planning, design, and implementation are delivered to the required levels Helps optimize the number of moves to provide business continuity and application availability Assess time zone dependencies Create move groups and components within each move group Deliverables: None Activity: Migration strategy For each asset type, conduct workshop with customer to gather and review business and technical requirement for the asset migration strategy Select the right migration strategy for the move Helps select a migration strategy, to simplify infrastructure and operational environments and anticipate what could go wrong, and creating a plan to mitigate the risk of that occurring Deliverable: Data center migration strategy report Activity: Risk analysis and mitigation plan Identify risks that will likely impede your ability to meet the migration timelines Create a risk mitigation plan Deliverable: Migration risk analysis report Activity: Detailed migration plan: Develop premove planning, unracking, and loading plan, transportation plan, unloading, and racking plan Perform test and validation plan for precutover and postcutover Helps develop handling plans and trigger events to take advantage of opportunities, avoid or mitigate risks during migration by providing a detailed analysis of risks Helps create a migration plan that minimizes cost, risk, and time Helps define a risk-mitigating migration process Plan for point in time for restore based on recovery time objective/recovery point objective (RTO/RPO) Deliverable: Migration project plan Activity: Implement migration plan Premove plan readiness validation Track physical migration plan Communicate status updates Deliverable: None Activity: Program management office Develops and controls the relationship and interdependencies between the individual project activities in the program to successfully meet the program objectives Provides for planning and obtaining of the program's funding and governance and for tracking and controlling component-level project expenditures Provides for the establishment of specific quality standards and oversight so the program achieves its benefits and objectives and helps make sure of cross-project application of the quality standard Deliverables: Project plan Helps prepare and coordinate people, assets, transportation, and migration partners for the move Helps coordinate the data center staff and migration partners by providing a comprehensive communication plan Helps make sure that the data migration plan works as expected prior to moving the entire production data store of an application Helps reduce overall project management costs Helps encourage efficient use of resources Helps improve cost control and budget management Helps improve communications, thereby reducing conflicts and risks Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information.

5 Tackle Hidden Risk Within the data center, business applications depend on various software components and run on servers that are connected to networks and storages. All these hardware and software components have complex and mission-critical interactions and interdependencies, which are either well documented or undocumented. The undocumented interactions and interdependencies are the most risky as they can lead to inadvertent misconnection or disconnection of application supporting infrastructure that can lead to major application outages. To significantly reduce this hidden risk, Armada Networksapplication dependency mapping (ADM) establishes a holistic and forensic view of known and hidden interdependencies, so that enterprises and service providers can plan for them. Armada Networks ADM examines these interdependencies from three different angles: servers, network, and business (Figure 3). The network offers the best vantage point to understand the interserver and interapplication interactions. Armada Networks ADM is distinguished by its capability to establish the forensic maps of invisible interdependencies that can cause application and SLA outages, as well as performance problems. Figure 3: Application Dependency Mapping: Server, Network, and Business Perspectives Grow Your Data Center Investment Armada Networks provides data center strategy development for the long term. We review your business needs and the IT stack and generates a multiyear strategy for each technology with suggestions on ways to immediately implement these strategies or others as needed during the migration. Armada Networks helps you realize the full value of your migration investment and evolve the data center strategy to meet future needs and stay current. Benefits The Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service helps enterprises and service providers to optimize data center architecture and IT investment while mitigating complexity and risks. The service helps you to: Understand emerging data center technologies and their architecture values and determine an implementation strategy that aligns to your business objectives Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information.

6 Mitigate risks of business disruption, as well as SLA, regulatory, and contract compliance violations Select the right migration strategy that minimizes effects on downtime, cost, risk, availability, and effort Minimize margin of error in the migration with an industry-proven migration methodology and unique Armada Networks ADM capabilities. Decrease new technology learning curve across the IT stack and capitalize on implementation opportunity that can accelerate and improve TCO and ROI of the new data center Grow migration investment value and evolve data center strategy to achieve a state-of-the-art data center that scales to business growth Armada's Expertise The Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service is delivered by certified professionals, who hold a wide array of industry certifications and are subject matter experts in data center technologies. These consultants have direct, current experience in planning, designing, and migrating large data centers. Armada offers the following expertise: Enterprise application experts Custom application porting experts Data center solution architects Layer 2 to Layer 7 architects Server load balancing (SLB) and global SLB architects SAN architects Certified professional consultants, including VMware Information security experts Network management architects Runbook automation experts PMP certification holders ITIL experts Facilities architects Why Armada Networks Data Center Services? Today, the data center is a strategic asset in a world that demands better integration among people, information, and ideas. Your business and your data center work better when technology products and services are aligned with your strategic business objectives and opportunities. Armada Networks and our industry-leading partners deliver intelligent, personalized services that accelerate the transformation of your data center. Using a unique, network-based perspective and a unified view of data center assets, Armada Networks takes an architectural approach to help you efficiently consolidate, virtualize, and manage data center resources. Armada NetworksData Center Services help transform, optimize, and protect your data center to reduce costs, deliver high availability, and improve application performance Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information.

7 Availability The Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service is widely available. Contact us at and ask us about availability in your area. For More Information For more information about the Armada Networks Data Center Migration Service, as well as additional Armada Services for the data center, visit Armada Networks EhF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Armada Networks EhF information. Printed in Iceland C /13