Consolidating the estate, then automating what runs on it
Lift-and-shift, V2V and data centre consolidation programs move workloads onto VCF and VVF private cloud, after which provisioning and platform operations are automated.
- Target private cloud platforms
- VCF / VVF
- Migration, upgrade and consolidation
- End to end
Where it started
Sprawling estates carry duplicated capacity and manual runbooks, so cost stays high and every provisioning request depends on a specific engineer being available.
How we ran it
- 01
Consolidate first
Lift and shift, V2V to VCF and data centre consolidation reduce the estate before any automation is layered on, so automation is not built over duplicated infrastructure.
- 02
Standardise the platform
Private cloud is built on VCF and VVF, with vSphere and VCF upgrade paths handled as part of the program rather than deferred.
- 03
Automate provisioning and operations
Server configuration, storage, VM provisioning, load balancer, firewall, AD and IPAM-DNS changes, database provisioning across MS SQL, Oracle and MySQL, and ITSM integration with ServiceNow or OpenText SMAX become automated, auditable workflows.
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