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Strategies for Upgrading to VI3
This document outlines the advantages and disadvantages to upgrade to Virtual Infrastructure VI3 for the following upgrade strategies.
In-place upgrade.
In-place upgrade with additional storage.
Reinstall (Migration within the same farm).
Migration to a new farm.
Virtualizing the Test Lab –
The Advantages of Pooling Servers (and Pitfalls to Avoid)
The ideal and perhaps obvious solution to server sprawl in the application development organization is to enable, through the use of virtual machine technology, the pooling and sharing of software development and test resources across software development teams.
While this idea is simple on the surface, there are significant challenges and pitfalls to implementing it. Even though the benefits of virtualizing the test lab are similar to those realized in the data center – namely reduced capital expenditures and optimized resource utilization – the requirements for managing virtual infrastructure in these two environments are fundamentally different.
This short whitepaper will highlight some of these differences, attempt to dispel assumptions that could lead to pitfalls, and demonstrate how a Virtual Lab Automation System is a critical component of your success.
Virtual Lab Automation
A Quantum Leap in IT Cost Reduction and Application Development Process Improvement
Virtual Lab Automation (VLA) – reducing server-to-staff ratios by more than 75%; slashing the percentage of AD cycle time spent configuring systems from 50% (or greater), to less than 5%; and ensuring software defects can be rapidly and consistently reproduced and resolved early in the development cycle. The result is higher quality software, built faster and with lower server- and data center-related capital and operating costs.
Maintaining a customer production and software release library using Akimbi Slingshot
Akimbi Slingshot allows organizations to maintain a comprehensive library of customer and production system environments, enabling them to:
• Eliminate upgrade breakage
• Deliver better product support
• Rapidly troubleshoot customer production problems
Accelerating Test Management Through Self-Service Provisioning
Discussion of how Akimbi Slingshot can be utilised to accelerate and automate the test management life cycle.
The Route to Virtualisation and Selling the Concept
The whitepaper deals with a common problem experienced by CIOs. The financial and business returns of virtualisation are significant but how do you relay this message to your business in a language that they understand and relates to their specific interests and concerns?
The paper covers selling the concept, the costs and savings, impact to staff, environmental impact, operational impact, mindset adjustment, value add business returns.
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