Storage and virtualisation
The platform the rest of the estate runs on.
Virtualised workloads share the same storage, compute and failure domains. We design platforms sized from measured demand, with the failure modes worked out before they are needed.
Where it fits
- On-premises server rooms and comms rooms
- Private data centres and colocation racks
- Healthcare and public-sector estates hosting clinical or line-of-business applications
- Hybrid estates keeping specific workloads on-premises
Storage and virtualisation
Our scope
What we do on these systems.
- 01Baseline existing workloads by measurement (IOPS, throughput, capacity growth and peak concurrency) rather than by estimate
- 02Design the storage architecture: tiers, protocols, replication and the performance each workload class actually receives
- 03Specify host clusters with the failover headroom stated, so one host failure does not oversubscribe the rest
- 04Plan migration from the existing platform in stages with rollback points, not a single cut-over weekend
- 05Commission against measured performance and a tested failover, not the datasheet figures
- 06Document the platform: capacity model, failure domains, and the procedure for expanding it
Platform
What the system does.
- Consolidation of ageing physical servers onto a resilient virtualised cluster
- Storage tiering that matches performance to workload, so archive data does not occupy flash
- Live migration of running workloads between hosts, so maintenance does not require downtime
- Automatic restart of workloads on a surviving host when hardware fails
- Snapshot and replication support that underpins backup and recovery design
- Capacity and performance monitoring with growth trending, so expansion is planned rather than forced
- Separation of production, storage and management traffic on the network
- Scale-out expansion without re-platforming what is already running
Next step
Bring the complete environment into one conversation.
Tell us what you are planning, replacing, integrating or trying to stabilise. We will help define the right next step.