When you are undertaking a data center relocation or consolidation project, risk mitigation is critical. Such moves are often fraught with risk since local users turning remote users can impact network application performance; increased transaction time can add strains on processing resources; and critical services can be disrupted during transitional stage move. Decisions about which servers should be grouped together, how much bandwidth new links should have, and the strategy for the "move plan" need to be understood and communicated.

Shunra’s Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite allows you to test your applications before you move them so that you can understand transaction response times and bolster end user experience. Shunra’s VE Suite helps you address these critical concerns before you move a single server, ensuring the success of your data center relocations and server migrations. Shunra accurately predicts network application performance from the end-user's perspective for all remote locations. It also enables project teams to experiment with "what if" scenarios as they plan and execute data center move or server relocation.

Shunra’s VE Suite enables you to:

• Know exactly how applications will perform after a move before you physically move them
• Test your server relocation plan, and the order in which you move servers, before rolling out and impacting users
• Understand network topologies in advance and test them accurately
• Understand exactly what the impact of proposed fixes to performance problems will be, prior to making an investment
• Expose applications to post-move network conditions, so problems are caught early, before the move
• Commit to relocation with complete confidence in the result, setting expectations in advance

Data center moves and server consolidation bring clear advantages such as reducing IT cost, supporting compliance with government and industry regulation or establishing business continuity plans. Undeniably, the critical impact of such moves on service levels- and on the business- should not be underestimated!

Shunra’s Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite helps network planners, enterprise architects and business application owners understand – in advance – exactly how server and data center moves will impact performance and availability.