Microsoft Virtualized Infrastructure Assessment - 5 Week Assessment

Protiviti

Analyze current infrastructure, assess needs, and explore Microsoft migration options while reducing reliance on VMware vSphere.

Objectives: Respond to VMware’s aggressive licensing price increases and uncertainty regarding the future of VMware products and services under Broadcom ownership. Perform a deep-dive review of current infrastructure capabilities, review technical and business requirements, and assess alternative paths for re-platforming applications on Microsoft infrastructure solutions while downsizing the enterprise’s VMware vSphere footprint.

Activities to be Completed:

  1. Infrastructure Deep Dive Engage data center and edge computing SMEs to gain a comprehensive understanding of the enterprise infrastructure:
  • Review and document data center systems: vSphere hosts, storage, and network infrastructure.
  • Assess current hybrid cloud solutions
  • Examine edge compute and networking environments
  • Operations solutions review: systems management and orchestration/deployment, replication/backup/recovery, VDI/app streaming, monitoring and observability
  1. Technical Requirement Review Assess workload/application documentation, associated vendor recommendations, SLAs, RTOs/RPOs, and other key requirements related to performance, availability, and compatibility.
  • Review workload/application inventory, CMDB, and other documentation
  • Identify performance and availability outliers and document workload performance and availability characteristics
  • Cross-reference application inventory with vendor guidance regarding system sizing and compatibility
  • Assess current workload placement proximity to end-users or other upstream/downstream dependencies
  1. Business Review Review historical and current operating costs, governance and policies.
  • Review documentation related to current infrastructure operating costs, budget, and if available, future increases in licensing expenses
  • Review the current governance impacting workload placement, data management and retention, system and application lifecycle
  • Review the enterprise’s operational and strategic goals
  1. Re-Platforming Roadmap Protiviti will outline a roadmap for VMware product footprint reduction.
  • Identify best ‘landing zone’ for workloads: Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI, Azure VMs, or conversion to Azure *-aaS service; document supporting case for workloads that should migrate to Azure VMware Solution or remain in a reduced-footprint on-premises vSphere environment
  • Construct roadmap outlining recommended approach for executing vSphere footprint reduction while maximizing value from existing infrastructure assets
  • Document recommendations for proof-of-concept testing and/or pilot workload migrations
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