The Challenge
Why Ageing Servers Hold You Back
Old servers cost more to run, fail more often and cannot keep up with growing workloads.
Is This Relevant?
Is This Use Case Relevant to Your Organization?
The people, moments and signals that usually bring this need to the surface.
Relevant Teams
- Infrastructure teams
- IT leaders
- Finance teams planning capital spend
Common Triggers
- Server end of support
- New workloads needing capacity
- Rising maintenance costs
Warning Signs
- Servers over five years old
- Frequent hardware faults
- High utilization with no headroom
Typical Environments
- On-premises and co-located data centers
- Virtualized and physical servers
Benefits
What Better Looks Like
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Our Approach
A Practical Approach
Planned around your operations, with no surprises. Each stage is tailored to your environment.
Assess
Review servers, workloads, utilization, power and support status.
Prioritize
Rank what you find by business impact, effort and risk, and agree where to start.
Design
Agree the target platform, sizing and migration plan.
Implement
Install platforms and migrate workloads in planned windows.
Validate and Optimize
Test performance and resilience after migration.
Solutions
Solutions That Can Help
The solutions that address this use case, starting with the primary one.
Services
How Signisys Can Support You
The services that deliver the approach, from the first assessment to ongoing improvement.
Technology
Technology Options
Where technology fits in the approach. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Before You Start
What to Consider Before Getting Started
A little preparation makes the first assessment faster and its findings more reliable.
- Workload requirements and growth
- Virtualization and licensing
- Migration windows
- Disposal of old hardware
- Who will own the work and act on recommendations
- Engagement model and ongoing support
Measuring Success
How to Measure Success
Illustrative measures. Agree a baseline first, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Server Utilization
How much capacity is used.
Hardware Incidents
Server faults per month.
Power Use
Power consumed by compute.
Workload Performance
Response times for key workloads.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this use case.
When should servers be replaced?
Typically at end of vendor support, when faults increase or when they limit workloads; an assessment confirms the timing.
Should servers move to the cloud instead?
Some workloads suit the cloud and others are better on-premises; the assessment compares both for each workload.
What information is needed to get started?
Your server inventory, support dates, utilization data, workloads and virtualization platform.
Which environments does this apply to?
On-premises and co-located data centers, with virtualized and physical servers.
How is progress measured?
Agree a baseline for measures such as server utilization, hardware incidents, power use and workload performance, then track them over time.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Use Cases and Guides
Where to go next: the outcome this use case supports, nearby scenarios, technology partners and practical guides.
Business Outcome
Modernize IT Infrastructure and Applications
Use Case
Modernize Data Center Infrastructure
Technology Partner
HPE Solutions and Services
Technology Partner
Lenovo Solutions and Services
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