While at first a data center consolidation project may sound like a large-scale hardware refresh, in reality it is much more complex. For instance, you may need different network addresses, gateways, and routes because your servers and applications are moving into a new environment. Or, you might need 50 or more servers up and configured correctly before the application becomes stable, which can become a real bottleneck on resources if you have many large applications. DynaCenter-DCC has the ability to automatically handle these configuration changes (and more) using its deployment profiles, providing a faster and less expensive way to accomplish these tasks.
Automating server migrations
DynaCenter-DCC’s image capturing ability automates the migration of a server image (operating system, applications, network and storage configurations, and local application data) from one server to another.
DynaCenter-DCC can freely move images between stand-alone servers, blade servers, and virtual machines. It can archive an image to central storage on NAS or SAN and deploy it later, or deploy multiple copies of a single image, each with a unique configuration (IP addresses, host names, DB connections, etc).
DynaCenter-DCC works with all major open system server platforms and operating systems, and can migrate single servers or large complex applications.
- Moving an entire business system to more powerful hardware
- Consolidation of one or thousands of servers
- Full-scale data center relocation
- Hardware refresh due to lease rollover or asset management
DynaCenter-DCC solves the serious problems associated with application migration, including:
- Stale images – Automatically refresh images without losing the critical configuration changes you’ve made to get the applications working in the new environment.
- Impacts to production – Our automated staged migration creates two templates, one for your staging environment and one for production, so you can migrate, test and verify your applications without impacting your production environment.
- High staging environment cost – Test and verify your applications in your staging environment on inexpensive dissimilar hardware before moving onto the actual hardware in the production environment.
- Inability to scale – Move a deployed application to more powerful hardware or scale it by deploying it to multiple servers with less effort and more uptime.
DynaCenter-DCC is reducing the cost, complexity and time required for these large scale projects, while ensuring objectives are met.
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