VI-4 Beta

Taupo are currently working with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 4

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Capacity Planner

Taupo now offer a capacity planner service based on VMware Capacity Planner

Veeam Partners

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Taupo Consulting can significantly lower your organisations' power costs.

We can make this happen through virtualisation of your existing server estate. We have implemented VMware virtualisation software in many of our client's data centres and server rooms. The mathematics are straightforward; if we can consolidate your physical servers into virtual machines at even a ratio of 5:1, that's cutting energy consumption by 80%. In reality, power savings are even higher, as fewer servers equals less heat generated which equals lower cooling costs.
 

Consolidation Ratios

We are often asked how many servers can run as virtual machines on a server. The short answer is it depends. Your applications will and workloads will not be the same as all other organisations. There are some servers which simply cannot be virtualised. Further, when we consolidate, we need to think about risk aversion and recovery time objectives.

Power & Heat

Many organisations manage their utilities overhead as a separate and unrelated cost centre from IT services. Taupo can assist in power usage & heat generation measurement before and after consolidation. By examination of overall cost centres, investment in virtualisation is one of the few investments which can clearly and openly provide a return on investment. That ROI is not difficult to quantify or questionable to measure. It can be as simple as comparing utility costs across two quarters.

Hardware & Maintenance

A  desirable concept is to do more with less. If your organisation virtualises the server estate, then quite simply, fewer servers are required. Therefore, less units which require support and maintenance.