Putting the Existing Picture Together

We have now inventoried our 4 servers and measured the Internet bandwidth. We should be able work with cloud providers better because we speak their language.

We can summarize our existing computing power as follows:

           Disk:           RAM:                 CPU:

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Server 1:  C: 20, D: 20 -- 2 GB (2.99 Ghz)   -- 5160 XEON - 3.00 GHz
Server 2:  C: 8         -- 2 GB (2.99 Ghz)   -- 5160 XEON - 3.00 GHz
Server 3:  C: 14        -- 1 GB (3.00 Ghz)   -- 5160 XEON - 3.00 GHz
Server 4:  C: 20, D: 30 -- 3.5 GB (3.00 Ghz) -- 5160 XEON - 3.00 GHz
Bandwidth: 5 minute peak  In: 0.9 MB   Out: 6.4 MB


There will be some other options that we might anticipate:

What operating system should be on the servers?    Windows 2003 Server

Do you have licences or do you want to rent from the cloud provider?   We have licences.

Do you want to rent other software? i.e. mail server, sql server etc.    No

We now have a pretty good picture of our cloud needs. Before we start getting prices, lets consider some other issues:

1. Besides cloud rental costs, what else should we consider?
2. How do we move our existing computing power to the cloud?

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Next Post: Other Cost Considerations

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