Customer Success
"Our goal was a global data center that supports high availability, with an architecture built around ruthless consolidation and virtualization."
—David Grant, Data Center Manager, Mitel
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Overview
The Business System Evolution program provides a proven, low risk approach to moving your applications to Integrity servers easily and cost-effectively. We'll help you achieve a smooth transition by leveraging proven expertise and integration experience during all the phases of the transition process:
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Awareness ›
Planning ›
Design ›
Implementation ›
Management ›
The HP Migration Competency Center and HP Enterprise Services, in addition to online tools and resources, are available to support you in each phase:
- Partner support: Over 14,000 applications are now available on HP Integrity servers
- Extensive services: HP and HP authorized resellers can help you to transition to simpler, more cost-effective and more capable HP Integrity systems
Awareness
The Awareness phase provides a structured approach for transferring applications from your legacy HP systems to HP Integrity. The path you choose for your transition will be based on factors such as cost, complexity and future business needs. The outcome of the Awareness phase is a decision on next steps, based on a sound business case.
HP resources such as the HP Migration Competency Center provide a powerful set of tools and services to help customers make sound choices. They can help you answer important questions such as these:
- What is the total cost of ownership of evolving to HP Integrity servers?
- Will upgrades or version changes be needed to transfer to Integrity?
- Will applications and custom code run unchanged on HP Integrity?
- What is the simplest, lowest risk, lowest cost path to transfer applications to HP Integrity servers?
Based on the answers to these questions, customers plan and execute their transition strategy. It will generally include infrastructure projects that apply one or more of these strategies:
- Transfer existing applications from legacy systems to HP Integrity servers without re-architecting the solution stack. This will be a common approach for Oracle database and SAP landscapes, for instance.
- Consolidate multiple application instances onto fewer servers to reduce TCO, taking advantage of virtualization, and leverage powerful Intel® Itanium® processors to reduce processor count.
- Re-architect the solution environment and install it on the new server platform.
Customer Success
"The upgrade to HP Integrity server blades under OpenVMS has enabled us to accommodate new gates and new control functions so that we can better handle peak travel volumes while still meeting our 45-minute delivery requirement."
—Kay Belke, software engineer, Fraport AG
Planning
The Planning phase defines the tasks, investments and schedule to execute the chosen transition strategy. It is based on the environment and TCO analysis done during the Awareness phase. Making the transition as seamless to your business operations as possible requires a good blueprint. This usually starts with more detailed analysis of business priorities.
Key steps include:
- Taking inventory of your current environment to identify key applications and revisions, server platforms, operating system releases and storage capacity.
- Determining requirements for the new environment, taking into account the new capabilities of HP Integrity servers, blades, HP-UX, and Storageworks.
During this phase, you will develop a transition plan that defines IT requirements, service level objectives, required functionality or ISV solution stack, transition schedule and available resources
Customer Success
"Given the performance benefits that we saw in our smaller application migrations, we were very confident in the price-performance benefits of Integrity servers [with Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® processors]. It’s a logical platform upgrade from PA-RISC."
—Tod Wiederholt, Manager of Systems Development for RelayHealth, McKesson Corporation
Design
The During the Design phase, you will create the plan to transition from HP 9000 servers to Integrity servers or blades, and transfer your applications. Key elements of the transition plan include:
- Sizing the systems to address your workload requirements, using HP reference architectures and solution block designs as starting points
- Clustering workloads so that Integrity virtualization can help you improve utilization
- Identify the tools and methods to move your data and applications to the target servers
HP has developed tools and techniques that help customers design a smooth, low risk, transition to HP Integrity servers. HP and HP authorized resellers can assist you to design your transition plan. Ask your account manager for more information.
Customer Success
"SAP is a very demanding, critical resource. Through the years, HP has delivered the capacity, reliability, and processing power to run Steelcase’s SAP environment and roll out new SAP tools in a timely manner. The Integrity architecture gives us even more performance and flexibility to drive up resource utilization and further leverage our IT investment."
—Jon Tanner, Server Engineer, Steelcase
Implementation
The Implementation stage puts your planning to work, executing the steps to transfer your applications and data assets to HP Integrity servers. Key components of this phase include:
- Process tests: data migration, pre- and post-migration validation tests.
- Run your new system in test environment and tune the solution for optimal performance.
- Establish the cutover timetable to move your business to the HP Integrity production environment.
Whether you work with HP or our partners, we will ensure that your implementation moves flawlessly from the test to the production environment. Our services—and those of our partners—will ensure a smooth introduction of the new systems into your IT infrastructure. The HP Migration Competency Center offers porting and migration assistance. Before you know it, you will be enjoying the business benefits you anticipated.
Customer Success
"The upgrade to OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers went smoothly. When we had technical questions or issues—due to the fact that at the current time Oracle 10g was not yet available for HP Integrity running OpenVMS—HP was responsive in helping us work through them."
—Günther Adelwoehrer, General Manager, ABF
Management
The Management phase lets you realize the benefits of your Integrity infrastructure. Now that the production systems are in operation, it is time to rigorously evaluate management strategies and policies to maximize your business benefits. HP provides numerous operating system features and tools to help ensure that you get the ROI that you anticipated when you decided to move to Integrity servers.
HP-UX 11i, along with Insight Manager, Virtual Server Environment, and Virtual Connect for Blades provide a rich toolset. Use these products to increase utilization, availability and support peak workloads. Along the way, our tools will help measure and optimize performance so your ROI continues to grow.
Customer Success
"HP helped us drive a lot of efficiency within our infrastructure operations. With the consolidation of our data centers we also reduced our infrastructure head count from 22 full-time equivalents (FTEs) to 9 FTEs."
—Faisal Naseem, corporate director of IT, Oil States International