This project will pilot the move of a database and an application to virtual machines on the metro stretched cluster.

If successful then this will provide a proven approach  to improving the resilience of our databases and applications so that, for example, we can recover from a data centre failure.

The project will pilot with the Wiki application, one of our priority services

The project will move the Wiki Application service, which is currently on a virtual machine, to the virtual Metro stretched cluster. 

The project will move the Database Tier to a virtual machine - this will be the first 'transactional' system to move to a VM environment.

If successful, then the project will then move that virtual machine to the Metro stretched cluster - this also has not been done before within the University infrastructure.