Virtualisation Environment Audit

Making the most of your Virtualisation Investment

This is a service that is unique to Castle. Over the years, Castle has been asked many times to help organisations with the configuration of their existing Virtualisation Infrastructure.

Although many organisations see performance improvements, ensuring you are receiving optimum performance and functionality from your investment should be an rolling task; which is why Castle Virtualisation Support Service provides regular Virtualisation Healthchecks.

If you are experiencing under-performance with your virtualisation infrastructure (ie the performance of your Virtualised Environment is not significantly better than your old physical environment) or not realising the Business Continuity and organisational flexibility benefits that should be associated with it, then Castle’s Senior Consultant led Virtual Environment Audit.

What is it?

The Virtual Environment Audit provides the following:

  • A review of your performance and functionality
  • Coaching of your IT team during the on-site audit process
  • A full report documenting technical recommendations and detailing any improvements that can be achieved

What is Included?

The following elements are reviewed as part of the Virtualised Environment Audit

  • Hardware
  • Licensing & Versions
  • Topology
  • Cluster Failover
  • Nodes/Hosts, including Accesc control, DNS issues, Networking, Local partitions
  • Resource allocation
  • CPU, Memory & Disk IO
  • Snapshots
  • Time Synchronisation
  • Storage including Data Stores, SAN and Resilience
  • Security
  • Back-up, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  • Fitness for purpose
  • Future planning

What systems can it be carried out on?

Castle’s VEA can be conducted on VMware, Citrix or Microsoft virtualisation infrastructure.

To find out more download the datasheet.

Further Information

To find out more about these and other Virtualisation products & services, please call Castle and ask for our Technical Sales team on 0845 230 1314. Alternatively you can email us your questions to info@castle-cs.com