Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Mohamed Elrefai, Vice President Enterprise Solutions Group GTSI
Dec 31, 2015
Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management
Mohamed Elrefai, Vice President Enterprise Solutions Group
GTSI
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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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