RackWare Assessment

Actionable Insights for Cloud Success

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Overview

RackWare Assessment Is a powerful tool designed for IT teams, cloud architects, and business leaders to analyze, optimize, and plan their IT and cloud environments. Assessment is a fully automated evaluation of your IT resources. This includes an inventory of all compute, memory and storage, monitoring to determine over and under provisioned resources, right-sizing recommendations, and identification of application affinities to aid wave planning.

The output from our Assessment tool provides the necessary data to plan a Cloud Migration. RackWare Assessment discovers information about Origin workloads, everything about the underlying hardware and software to determine the exact Target instance to be provisioned in a Target Cloud for a Migration or to protect workloads via DR/Backup.

Assessment generates cost prediction for individual workloads and entire environments in a simple and easy to use interface for multiple Cloud environments. Assessment can generate graphical representation of connected Hosts for application affinities

Longer term analysis can be done to measure and analyze key performance metrics over time including peak and averaged values. This information can be used for right sizing or autoscaling operations to optimize economies in the Cloud.

Key Capabilities

• Wave Generation & Application Affinities

  Automatically generate migration waves with insights into tiered applications and their affinities, simplifying wave planning.

• Replication Discovery

  Identify infrastructure servers, catalog databases, applications, compute, storage, and network details at both per-server and environment-wide levels.

• Cloud Instance and Cost Prediction

  Provide detailed predictions for cloud instance provisioning across GCP, OCI, and Azure, ensuring costeffective planning.

• Long-Term Analysis

  Monitor key usage metrics, plot usage curves (min, max, average), and enable accurate right-sizing for optimal resource allocation.

• Seamless Path from Assessment to Migration

  RackWare Assessment doesn’t stop at visibility—it accelerates execution of Migration and Disaster Recovery projects. Once workloads are discovered and assessed, users can select groups of virtual machines and initiate a fully automated migration with a single click.