Verifying System Requirements
After you have completed your assessments and needs analysis, you will have then defined your requirements and which cloud service and deployment models best meet them. The next step is to select a pilot or trial application to migrate to the cloud from your existing data center.
Prior to performing the migration, the engineering team should sit down and review the complete design, from the application, configuration, hardware, and networking to the storage and security. As part of this verification, it is helpful to stage the system in the cloud as a proof-of-concept design. This allows everyone to test the systems and configuration in a cloud environment prior to going live.
Correct Scaling for Your Requirements
The ability to automatically and dynamically add resources such as storage, CPUs, memory, and even servers is referred to as elasticity. This is done “on the fly” as needed and is different from provisioning servers with added resources...
