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Is the technical choice (shared, dedicated, clustered) optimised between the actual need and energy efficiency ?

Advice 

Systems (software)

B People

B Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

N/A

Priority

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Récurrence

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Tests

Which metric drives the choice: technical, security, finance, scalability, physical footprint?

Precisions

Different solutions offered by hosting providers generate very different physical equipment allocations and therefore a different environmental footprint. The major point of analysis is the number of servers, the power consumed by the servers, the storage volumes and the power consumed by them. Using powerful servers or storage for a need that does not require their full capacity increases environmental impact.

71. The calculations and tasks are distributed over different dedicated servers depending on the nature of their tasks (data, emails, videos, etc.)

Additional elements

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

0 / 0

Life cycle

Déploiement

11 other criteria related to the recommendation: Adapt the use of technical equipment to needs

Recommendation Essential

Systems (software)

Is the size of the physical park in line with the number of virtual machines to be run ?

Recommendation

Energy

Are servers / routers turned off when not in use ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Is the allocated memory based on actual use ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Is the number of CPU cores allocated based on actual use ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Are unused cores disabled ?

Recommendation

Systems (software)

Is the backup system incremental (disk optimization) ?

Advice

Systems (software)

Is the use of containers over virtual machines preferred ?

Advice

Systems (software)

Are Open Source solutions implemented when available ?

Recommendation

Equipment (hardware)

Is high availability designed in a modular fashion ?

Recommendation

Equipment (hardware)

Is provisioning / deprovisionning dynamic depending on the load ?

Recommendation

Equipment (hardware)

Do storage solutions reduce the number of components (for example: high density SSD media) ?