Sun Virtualization Suite of Services

Sun Virtualization Suite of Services

Sun Services assist customers with the planning,design and deployment of virtualization technology. Sun has a long history of providing IT Infrastructure Services and we can offer a broad solution that avoids vendor lock-in, protects existing IT investments, and will manage heterogeneous physical and virtualized IT assets. Our virtualization best practices typically reduce power and cooling costs by as much as 60% and space savings by as much as 57%. Operational planning can reduce the time it takes to set up a new server by as much as 32% and reduce adminstration costs by 24% resulting in significant TCO savings.1


For Servers
Capabilities
Virtualization Workshop
  • Assess business needs and translates to technical objectives
  • Proposes time lines
  • Defines milestones and resource requirements
  • Identifies potential risks, roadblocks and issues
  • Determines actionable next steps

Virtualization Architecture
  • Chooses the virtualization technology that best meets business goals
  • Optimizes IT infrastructure and increases server utilization by performing capacity planning, performance analysis and profiling of applications
  • Creates an architecture and configuration plan that minimizes risk
  • Justifies project with TCO and ROI analysis

Virtualization Implementation
  • Coordinates activities, budget and deliverables by a certified Project Manager
  • Speeds deployment with factory configuration and on-site integration
  • Tests new infrastructure and defines a cut-over process for production
  • Transfers knowledge and makes recommendations for on-going management and support
  • Includes Sun technologies and other industry leading virtualization platforms
Managed Services
  • 24x365 remote monitoring and management of Solaris Containers and VMWare ESX
  • Onsite staff augmentation
Learning Services
  • Examine different ways to create virtualized systems and how to manage them
  • Find courses on Solaris Containers, Logical Domains and Sun xVM
For Storage
Capabilities
  • Evaluation of your current storage issues, providing insight into potential areas of improvement
  • Covers all data types and platforms
  • Offers specific solutions and a roadmap for addressing them
  • Focuses on mitigating storage issues involving people, technology and processes

  • Project management
  • Architecture consulting
  • Product test planning and execution
  • Definition of the scope of the services and detail the tasks to be performed.
  • Includes technologies for virtual tape, disk and virtualization software

  • Get vendor-independent recommendations for flexibility and choice so you can create a migration solution based on your unique requirements
  • Receive industry veteran storage and data management expertise to investigate, justify, design, plan, and implement a data migration solution
  • Receive a breadth of capability with comprehensive data migration services for mainframe, open systems, and Microsoft Windows environments
Learning Services
  • Dynamic Provisioning and Virtual Partition manager are covered in the Hitachi Enterprise Storage Software course
  • Virtual Tape Libraries on mainframes are covered in VSM MVS Systems Admin course
  • Virtual Tape Libraries on open systems are covered in the Sun StorageTek VTL Plus Admin and Config course

Crimson Study, March 2008: Beyond the Technology Argument: Upgrading to Solaris 10 Delivers Significant Economic Value as Well