Got a big presentation tomorrow morning for a new job in the city! 
Anyway this is the brief just wondering if anyone has some useful ideas/suggestions
Client environment
1 site
150 servers (win2k3, 2k and linux)
550 users (some remote users)
Client requirements
1. To significantly reduce the current time to recover in case of a disaster down from 36 hours
2. A highly scalable, secure and resilient virtualised production environment
3. A long-term reduction in hardware, management and licensing costs
4. Improve ease of use of infrastructure management
5. Consolidation of Software
6. Increase server utilisation
7. Reduce server deployment time
8. Offer a more cost effective method to High Availability
9. Zero maintenance downtime
10. A highly effective and scalable DR/Business Continuity solution
11. Reduced Data Centre costs - Less power input and heat output
12. Reduce the costs and improve the ease of implementing future projects significantly (SQL migration and Exchange upgrade
Im thinking Bladecenters at Live and DR with some form of mirrored SAN infrastructure - possibly clustering somewhere. And a D2D based replicated backup solutuion. All based around ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter. Am a bit lost as to points 3, 4 and 5 though
Anyway this is the brief just wondering if anyone has some useful ideas/suggestions
Client environment
1 site
150 servers (win2k3, 2k and linux)
550 users (some remote users)
Client requirements
1. To significantly reduce the current time to recover in case of a disaster down from 36 hours
2. A highly scalable, secure and resilient virtualised production environment
3. A long-term reduction in hardware, management and licensing costs
4. Improve ease of use of infrastructure management
5. Consolidation of Software
6. Increase server utilisation
7. Reduce server deployment time
8. Offer a more cost effective method to High Availability
9. Zero maintenance downtime
10. A highly effective and scalable DR/Business Continuity solution
11. Reduced Data Centre costs - Less power input and heat output
12. Reduce the costs and improve the ease of implementing future projects significantly (SQL migration and Exchange upgrade
Im thinking Bladecenters at Live and DR with some form of mirrored SAN infrastructure - possibly clustering somewhere. And a D2D based replicated backup solutuion. All based around ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter. Am a bit lost as to points 3, 4 and 5 though
