The following is our case background: customer X has invested in an enterprise-designed virtual infrastructure for the x86 environment within its big company centers. These investments, over time, have provided customer X with both financial and operational benefits, in addition to a more highly available and reliable platform for delivering virtual server services to the core business functions and faculties. Through this investment in vSphere, customer X is continuing to standardize all x86 services on the VMware vSphere platform to maintain and maximize their capital, operational, and availability benefits. Within this context, the current Sun E25K servers are up for retirement, and due to the high cost of maintaining the environment, these assets have been selected for migration from the current Oracle on SPARC Solaris, which is on the Sun E25K servers, to Oracle on Red Hat Linux, which is on vSphere.
Customer X aims to achieve the following benefits:
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