Real World Solutions

Challenge

A large-sized company wants to implement Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to consolidate a number of unmanaged tier 2 and tier 3 SQL server databases, since these databases have become business critical. One of the deployment blockers that is stopping this company from carrying out such a SQL consolidation exercise is the fact that their existing storage area network (SAN) does not currently offer support for Windows Server 2012. However, there are alternative storage options available that could be leveraged outside of Fibre Channel.

The CEO of the company has made it clear that it would be difficult to fund the replacement of this SAN within the first half of the year, due to unforeseen budgetary constraints. The CIO ...

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