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Virtualization

C2

Oversee and administer the operation of the virtualization environments, including the collective processes, tools, and technologies to ensure governance and control over the virtualized infrastructure.

Improvement Planning

Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)

Representative POMs are described for Virtualization at each level of maturity.

2Basic
  • Practices
    • Experiment and build experience of virtualization and its management tool sets.
    • Demonstrate and communicate the advantages of virtualization.
    Outcomes
    • Virtualization is emerging for limited parts of the IT infrastructure.
    • The organization gains confidence in the use of virtualization and sees its advantages — for example, in reduced costs (via consolidation), improved disaster recovery, and so on.
    Metrics
    • # of virtual versus physical servers.
    • % cost reduction due to virtualization.
3Intermediate
  • Practices
    • Adapt the IT infrastructure management processes to move to an all-virtual world.
    • Invest and gain experience in virtualization-aware management tools to orchestrate the relationship between large numbers of dynamically changing VMs, physical servers, storage, and network resources.
    Outcomes
    • The default environment has shifted from server to virtual server.
    • Operational savings increase, and VM sprawl is controlled and reduced.
    • There is partial automation, leading to improvements in key processes such as change management, incident management, and deployment.
    Metrics
    • % virtualization of the IT infrastructure.
    • % automation of the virtual environment.
4Advanced
  • Practices
    • Remove the division of workloads between business units by shifting virtualized resources so that they become a pool that is managed at the pool level.
    • Substantially increase automation.
    Outcomes
    • The management of the IT infrastructure is transformed to provide shared services across the organization.
    • Administrators take full advantage of automation tools to update and manage the virtual environments.
    • Application deployment is automated.
    Metric
    # of shared infrastructure services.
5Optimized
  • Practices
    • Put in place a centre of excellence to optimize and manage virtualization policies, procedures, and standards.
    • Provide optimized and secured environment access across and beyond the organization, including portals for business partners.
    Outcomes
    • An optimized virtual environment is driven by organization goals and business-driven scenarios to significantly reduce risks.
    • The appropriate level of environment access is provided to each constituency.
    Metrics
    • # of virtualization improvements and optimizations.
    • # of access levels provided.