I have been tasked with taking a look at our companies infrastructure to decide what we are going to do going forward. We shrunk from 200+ people down to 12.
We no longer have a support contract with VMWare but have a 6CPU license. We also are in question of our licenses for our windows software (recent audit MSFT can't find our licenses and we can't find where/how they were paid for except a few CDW receipts and spread sheets from MSFT with the license keys). Basically it's a huge mess.
We are currently paying ~$3500/mo for datacenter, dr datacenter and internet connection to the DR.
We currently have 4-5 production VM's all Windows 2K8R2, one of them SQL 2k8R2. The other VM's are web and application servers and we have about 1.2TB of data live at one time total (all PDF's, only a small fraction accessed per month). We can comfortably run on a single 2 proc 5520 server with under 32GB ram.
I am looking in to Azure to host the VM's. Using the calculator on MSFT's site we can provision enough VM's and storage and bandwidth to have our whole production there for under $2000/mo. IaaS seems to be pretty attractive compared to re-buying licenses and maintaining the hardware in 2 datacenters.
It wouldn't be difficult to have our applications pull data from azure storage vs a regular file server but there is some cost there in my time to do some coding.
What's [H] opinion on this?
We are on a TIIIIIIGHT budget and will need to get the license issue squared away soon. We use MSFT hosted exchange already.
We no longer have a support contract with VMWare but have a 6CPU license. We also are in question of our licenses for our windows software (recent audit MSFT can't find our licenses and we can't find where/how they were paid for except a few CDW receipts and spread sheets from MSFT with the license keys). Basically it's a huge mess.
We are currently paying ~$3500/mo for datacenter, dr datacenter and internet connection to the DR.
We currently have 4-5 production VM's all Windows 2K8R2, one of them SQL 2k8R2. The other VM's are web and application servers and we have about 1.2TB of data live at one time total (all PDF's, only a small fraction accessed per month). We can comfortably run on a single 2 proc 5520 server with under 32GB ram.
I am looking in to Azure to host the VM's. Using the calculator on MSFT's site we can provision enough VM's and storage and bandwidth to have our whole production there for under $2000/mo. IaaS seems to be pretty attractive compared to re-buying licenses and maintaining the hardware in 2 datacenters.
It wouldn't be difficult to have our applications pull data from azure storage vs a regular file server but there is some cost there in my time to do some coding.
What's [H] opinion on this?
We are on a TIIIIIIGHT budget and will need to get the license issue squared away soon. We use MSFT hosted exchange already.