Capacity & concurrency
Inventory virtual machines, peak CPU, actual RAM use and disk latency. Allow for growth rather than sizing only by user count.
Server & virtualisation design
Choose platforms around business workloads, maintenance windows and recovery needs.
Architecture outline
Business services → Virtualisation hosts → Storage & network → Backup / recovery environment
These planning and selection methods support discussion. Adapt the final configuration to workloads, site conditions and validation results.
Design steps & decisions
Compute & memory
Balance CPU licensing costs, core count and clock speed. Populate ECC memory channels according to platform rules, checking speed limits after expansion.
Availability design
Connect redundant PSUs to suitable power paths. Dual NICs, shared storage and clustering have distinct prerequisites. Spare components in one server do not provide complete application availability.
Migration & rollback
Test backup restoration and pilot migrations. Agree maintenance windows, dependencies, rollback triggers and owners before cutover.
Prepare for a design discussion
Provide current equipment and versions, key applications and workloads, users or concurrency, data volume and growth, site power and networking, budget, timing and critical service windows.
Deliverables to agree
Requirements brief, configuration and BOM, compatibility records, test conditions and acceptance checklist. Agree the actual scope of installation, migration, maintenance and on-site services during project confirmation.
Continue selection & planning
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