Completion Report

Project Summary

Servers have been migrated and load balancers replaced. 

There was virtually no interruption to services during this processes (one instance of Euclid being unavailable for a day).

 

 

 

Description of the Objective

Success Criteria

 

 

Description of the Deliverables needed to achieve the objective

 

 

Objective 1 

Migrate all servers as soon as possible

A date will be set once analysis of migration process is doen during planning phase 

Achieved

Deliverable D1.1

Identify all servers to be migrated

 

Signed off by Technical Lead

       Delivered              

Deliverable D1.2

Migrate the Servers

Signed off by Service owners/Enterprise        Delivered   

 

     

Objective 2

Replace current Load Balancers

 

Achieved

Deliverable D2.1

Migrate all services from using existing Load Balancers to new 

Signed off by Technical Lead        Delivered   
       
Objective 3

Decommission servers not migrated

  Achieved

Deliverable D3.1

Identify all servers not to be migrated

Signed off by Technical Lead        Delivered   

Deliverable D3.2

 
Decommission the servers Signed off by Technical Lead        Delivered   

 

 

Benefits

Benefits already enabled by the Project

Benefit  

Description 

  1.  

Reduction in day-to-day cost of operation

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Increased agility in delivering infrastructure to customers

  1.  

Increased productivity

  1.  

reduced time-to-production for service delivery

  1.  

Consolidating hardware to a smaller footprint is more energy efficient

  1.  

Improved power efficiency

  1.  

Reduction in carbon emissions in Datacentres. 

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High resilience and availability and adaptive performance to ensure the most efficient use of infrastructure to meet the changing usage of services over time whilst maintaining security

 

Lessons Learned - Issues and Risks  

The reliance on the suppliers to provide an automated solution proved to be a decision that cost the project around six months of delay - it turned out that taking an 'in-house' manual approach was fasster and effective.

 

 

 

 

 

Project Info

Project
Enterprise Infrastructure Migrations and Infrastructure Upgrade Completion
Code
ENT401
Programme
ITI - Enterprise Services (ENT)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Maurice Franceschi
Project Sponsor
Graeme Wood
Current Stage
Execute
Status
In Progress
Project Classification
Transform
Start Date
12-Sep-2022
Planning Date
18-Nov-2022
Delivery Date
19-Aug-2024
Close Date
29-Aug-2024
Overall Priority
Normal

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