Starting point
Operations depended on individual physical servers. Backup, restore and hardware replacement were each an intervention that carried downtime risk.
What we built
Inventory of operating system and application dependencies, then P2V migration of the Windows and Linux servers into the virtualisation environment. After migration, CPU, RAM, disk and network were re-sized and services and application access verified.
Result
The hardware dependency is gone. Backup, restore, migration and resource management now run through the virtualisation layer instead of hardware appointments.
More references
Central camera system with network segmentation
Security staff access the cameras they are cleared for from one place, recordings are retained correctly, and video traffic no longer loads the data network. An incident in the camera segment does not spread to other segments.
Corporate ITDisaster recovery across two sites
Critical systems keep running at the second site in an emergency. Downtime and the risk of data loss are significantly reduced, and the dependency on a single site is gone.
Multi-branch businessFirewall cluster with high availability
In testing the second instance took over each time and the link between head office and branches stayed stable. The dependency on a single firewall or line is gone.