1. Datasheet
VYASAKA Consulting
Database Health Check and Support Services
Objective
Preventive maintenance to your database
To run the database and systems
application systems at peak
efficiency and effectiveness of Data sheet
the current hardware platform Published: Apr 2006
and systems environment with
our 'Database Health Check
Background
Services'.
The today's business environment is highly competitive one, with
Our Experience growing business requirements, demanding customers, rapid business
Vyasaka Consultants are changes, availability of information round the clock instantly through
uniquely trained and qualified multiple applications and delivery channels. It is important to have an
to implement solutions
advantage to overcome the competition and to manage the business to
designed to enhance your
business and maximize your success. To support and lead with business advantage, the operations
investment in Database and systems need to run at full efficiency, reliably and predictably.
technology.
Periodic analysis of your system to improve performance and identify
future problems that is critical to business running normal and well
Benefits positioned for growth. We at VYASAKA understands this requirements and
Get a full analysis & developed solutions offering designed to help you to achieve your system
evaluation of the current
health and growth needs.
system performance
Identify and Isolate
improvement opportunities
Eliminate costly surprises Database Health Checks
like performance
degradation, bottlenecks and
disaster situations Our Database Health Check is a routine assessment to determine the
Energize & Extend the life of operating condition of the database and current performance of your
your current hardware application. Vyasaka consultants will perform planned on-site analysis
with our monitoring tools and services to ensure peak performance:
Offering Includes
System Environment Analysis:
Onsite consulting to collect
statistics of your application Application systems & Database environment review and database
and focus on providing system utilization including its architecture, background processes, batch
measurable improvements to
jobs, load balancing and optimization, database configuration
the performance and health
of the database parameters, application configuration and built-in functionality.
A detailed report consists
of: Database Status:
o Environment and Database status analyzes how well the database is designed, structured
Application analysis & database growth has been planned, and what the implications are for
o Database status and
current system performance and for business/data growth scenario.
criticality
o Server system analysis Server & Network Utilization Analysis:
o Disaster recovery
readiness Examination and assessment of the hardware configuration and
Offer from Vyasaka utilization including the CPUs, memory, disks and networks
Consulting to deploy the
recommendations with the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity:
well defined plan and time
frame
System status evaluation, current backup & recovery mechanisms and
business continuity planning, and potential effectiveness of your
disaster recovery plan, backup strategy, system failover and redundancy.
2. Database Health Check and Support Services
Preventive maintenance to your database systems
Scope
We aim at
Minimize Downtime,
Reduced outages and The system health check includes onsite consulting; the duration and
Improved recovery from pricing for this consulting depends on the number of instances/databases
unplanned Outages and sites involved. Projects involving multiple sites or larger databases
Provide advanced will require more time than a single-site, single database system. All
automated processes that
pro actively monitor your services will be delivered subject to a mutually executed service
database servers agreement and proposal.
After the completion of the onsite consulting, your Vyasaka consultant
Standard Deliverables will deliver a written report detailing the condition of and any
Initial review of database recommendations for improvements in your:
environment, product
versions, platform, current Server hardware platform
issues and user concerns
Review and analysis of Database environment and configuration changes
database configuration,
including memory Database utilization summary
parameters, checkpoint
Disaster recovery plans
times and disk allocation
Analysis of database log This report is provided in a standardized format so that you can compare
files to search for possible
with future health checks to identify changes and track improvement.
problems and review
checkpoint times, database
statistics, including cache
rates, disk usage and
overall performance Competitive Advantages
Diagnostic report
identifying weakness and VYASAKA offers the quality services with expert advice and giving you
risks as well as correction the peace of mind. Our competitive solution advantages include
and optimization
recommendations Reduction of risk and associated cost of system downtime
Monthly customized support
services which may be used Valuable industry experience shared with in-house IT staff
for tuning, mentoring,
consulting for current Optimal system performance and full value extraction from
issues, or consulting on existing system
other Oracle related
subjects The ability to effectively plan for future hardware expenditure
based on expert advice on future infrastructure planning and
We support requirements
Our services are currently A choice of flexible on going support packages providing IT staff
available in following
packages to Vyasaka's specialist knowledge when required
databases
Oracle Tailor to meet the user requirements and budget in a cost
DB2 effective way
Informix
Platform specific, Database specific monitoring tools that gives an
Sybase
edge to monitor the databases pro actively round the clock
SQL Server
MySQL Monitor databases, detect critical events and notify the
PostgreSQL administrator(s) on the unexpected happenings round the clock,
non intrusively.
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3. Database Health Check and Support Services
Preventive maintenance to your database systems
Consulting Services
Improve your business
performance with VYASAKA's
Vyasaka Consulting offers strategic solutions that helps you to prepare
database consulting
solutions for the future. Whether you are looking forward to ebusiness, gain
operational efficiencies through better reporting and decision support, or
enhance your technology environment to make it run faster and better,
Disaster Recovery
Planning – Vyasaka can Vyasaka Consulting can help you get there. We offer a comprehensive
play a key role in your
support, consulting, mentoring, and training programs tailored to address
disaster planning, ensuring
that whatever the cause, the issues you’re facing right now.
your system will not be
unavailable longer than Our services and solutions offering include:
acceptable time frame
Database Alerts – 24x7 enterprise
Robustness check – Take your business to a new level by enhancing your existing database
ensures your database is applications with valuable business solutions and constantly monitor the
stable and reliable. database round the clock even when you are in the desk.
Vyasaka utilizes analytical
techniques to predict Our 'Be Notified Instantly' database alerts solution will be the watch dog
common usage patterns
to your database and the defined events will be notified to you through
which are then used to
recommend design SMS.
enhancements for your
database environment. Web Migration & Optimization
Move your database applications to web platform to take advantage of
High Availability – the technology and ease of installation, configuration, management and
ensures you have access to improve user productivity. Reduce your Total Cost of Operations (TCO)
your database on demand.
Vyasaka measure and and improve the business efficiency.
report available time and
System Enhancements/Upgrade
incidents so you can
manage your databases Examine, upgrade, secure, tune, supplement, and manage your systems
more efficiently. for maximum performance and be up-to-date with the technological
offerings that meets your business requirements and save costs.
Backup and Recovery
Solutions – Vyasaka Upgrade your databases systems, migrate and consolidate the data and
designed backup and
database to the common platform, simplify the application & database
recovery solutions are
tailored to your management process and employ disaster recovery that can help you to
requirements to ensure all with stand unexpected issues.
your system data is
recoverable to a point in Reporting and Distribution Management
time with no data loss.
Enhance the database application system reporting to the next level with
the centralized internet platform. Plan and schedule the heavy reports to
Performance
Management – to ensure the off peak load.
end user requirements are
met.
Upon report processing & completion, reports will be securely delivered
to your preferred option through email/ftp/download web browser.
Capacity Management User Training & Education
and Scalability – Vyasaka
Consultants utilize Improve productivity by ensuring that everyone on your team is up-to-
statistical analysis date on the latest database technologies and the features it offers to
techniques to assist in
simplify the data management.
predicting the capacity of
your system over time in
the areas of CPU, memory,
network and disk.
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