The Business Problems

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AMDBusiness, Operational and Financial (BOF)
Impact Case Study

• The Business Problems
• AMD wanted to change over all of their internal
  systems to servers running on AMD processors.
• This project was known corporate-wide as AMD on
  AMD.
• As part of this strategy, AMD decided to
  consolidate server hardware using VMware ESX
  Server and the associated ESX Server management
  technologies
• The major goal of the project was to migrate off
  servers with Intel processors and, where
  appropriate, to virtualize the physical servers
  to obtain better hardware efficiency,
  manageability, recovery, and disaster recovery
  capabilities
• GlassHouse Solution Server Virtualization
  Project
• A team was created with 12 resources from various
  departments within AMD and this team participated
  in the GlassHouse Accelerate process
• The outcome of this work was a design and
  deployment plan for the introduction of
  virtualization within AMD core datacenters
• The virtualization design developed by AMDs IT
  team was designed to meet the following main
  objectives
• The team designed a scalable and manageable
  solution based on VMware ESX Server, VMware
  VirtualCenter, and HP Proliant DL585
  SAN-connected servers

Client AMD Industry Computer
Hardware Solution Server Virtualization Project
(AMD on AMD)
Business Impact The design provides adequate
performance, supports existing critical processes
and with no change in application stability AMD
now has a scalable infrastructure
Operational Impact Eliminated Intel-based servers
from datacenter Eliminated end-of-life
servers The infrastructure is easy to manage,
secure and accommodates a variety of storage
technologies
Financial Impact Three year NPV 1,729,000.00 Fiv
e Year NPV 3,506,000.00 Payback Period
(Yrs) 0.67 3 Year ROI 391 5 year ROI 769 3
Year IRR 130 5Year IRR 155 Ongoing costs
savings were expected to be approx. 300K per
year in power, cooling and hardware support