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Questions:<br />
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I assume by &quot;Physical servers&quot; you mean baremetal installs.<br />
What is your main objective: 100 percent virtualization? Five Nines?<br />
What are your geographic constraints: trans-metro, continental, national?<br />
What are the bandwidth constraints?<br />
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Thumbnail sketch:<br />
Purchase Dell VRTX to match cap of largest Datacenter (DC1). P to V environment/backup VMs to it; move to central DC(DC0) and offload; sync deltas and decom that DC1; ship Empty VRTX to DC2: rinse and repeat.<br />
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Once consolidation is complete, use VRTX as component in larger DR scheme.<br />
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OR: use a cloud provider to ship VMs up to and pull down from at your discretion, like vCloud or Azure or somesuch.
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Hello we are looking to migrate/consolidate 800 applications that are located in 4 different data centers into a single data center. 70% of our environment is physical servers.<br />
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As part of my due diligence I am hoping to get some feed back on the different ways this could be achieved and in particular &nbsp;any innovative solutions that we might have missed.<br />
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Our top two priorities are Security and DR &nbsp;migration/consolidation of the application. <br />
&nbsp;Any proven ideas on best way to approach ( I know there are a few ways to do this) are highly appreciated.<br />
- What tools do you use? <br />
- How do you address security requirement? DR? <br />
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J
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Hello we are looking to migrate/consolidate 800 applications that are located in 4 different data centers into a single data center. 70% of our environment is physical servers.
 
As part of my due diligence I am hoping to get some feed back on the different ways this could be achieved and in particular  any innovative solutions that we might have missed.

Our top two priorities are Security and DR  migration/consolidation of the application. 
 Any proven ideas on best way to approach ( I know there are a few ways to do this) are highly appreciated.
- What tools do you use? 
- How do you address security requirement? DR? 

J

Application Migration

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.