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After many months of planning and spurned on by rising data centre costs, especially power, we will be migrating to a revised core setup. Currently the physical servers are very much under-utilized even though they are all running virtual machines. The ones that are at capacity are only running a single VM per host. Therefore we will install brand new hardware to run those performance dependant VM's and spread the remaining VM's over the most powerful legacy hosts.

Following on the premise that the data is most important item in any IT infastructure this will environment will form the inner ring on the overall environment. Each ring is isolated from the others by at least a firewall, but equally VLAN's and physically separate network interfaces will be employed.

Each ring will also contain its own supporting services for example DNS/DHCP servers, syslog etc. After initial testing it seems that Zeroshell will provide all these functions in one VM.