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Is provisioning / deprovisionning dynamic depending on the load ?

Recommendation 

Equipment (hardware)

B People

B Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

***

Priority

High

Récurrence

Periodic

Tests

How long after inactivity are the services de-provisioned?

Precisions

When hosting a service, each component part may have a different lifetime. It is important that all end-of-life procedures are outlined so that the footprint of unused and discontinued components is neutral. This is also the case when the shutdown is temporary due to a drop in activity.

Use Case

Technical documentation

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Formalized = 100 ; Planned = 75 ; Identified = 50 ; Ignored = 0 / 100

Life cycle

Fin de Vie

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 ?

Advice

Systems (software)

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

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)

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