Infrastructure assessments
Review IBM Power configuration, AIX levels, virtualization, availability and operational practices. Identify areas requiring further investigation or remediation.
01 / Consulting & ArchitectureIBM Power consulting.
IBM Power consulting.
Built around your environment.
Independent architecture and assessment support to help you understand your infrastructure, plan changes and make informed technical decisions.
Consulting scopeAssess the present.
Assess the present.
Plan what comes next.
For CIOs, infrastructure managers, enterprise IT teams and technology partners.
Performance & capacity
Evaluate workload behavior, resource allocation and capacity considerations. Review processor, memory and I/O configuration in the context of your applications.
PowerVM consulting
Plan LPARs, processor pools, VIOS and virtual I/O. Review virtualization design, consolidation options and Live Partition Mobility requirements.
High availability & DR
Review PowerHA design, recovery dependencies, backup strategy and disaster recovery planning. Define validation steps around your business priorities.
Migrations & consolidation
Develop an approach for server or AIX migrations and workload consolidation, including readiness reviews, technical dependencies and change planning.
SAP HANA infrastructure
Consult on IBM Power infrastructure for SAP HANA landscapes, including platform implementation and configuration. Engagement scope is infrastructure-focused.
A practical engagementFrom requirement
From requirement
to a defined plan.
Understand the environment
Discuss workloads, platform versions, operational priorities and the decision or change you need to make.
Agree the assessment or project scope
Define systems in scope, required access, available information and the expected outputs.
Review and recommend
Assess the agreed areas and discuss technical findings, options and next steps.
Plan implementation support
If needed, scope follow-on assistance for remediation, implementation or migration.
Planning a Power infrastructure change?
Discuss an assessment, architecture review or migration requirement.