Infrastructure planning
Choose infrastructure from evidence, not from a server shopping list.
Start with workload, recovery expectations, data growth, ownership, and operating effort. Hardware is the result of those decisions—not the first decision.
Decision path
Start with the workload and operating constraints
Use the guided planner when you need to translate business requirements into capacity, recovery, storage, network, and ownership decisions before choosing hardware.
Best when the right architecture is not obvious yet.
Plan from requirements →Reference path
Compare representative hardware profiles
Use the catalog when the workload is already understood and you need a structured comparison of compute, memory, storage, expected setup effort, planning cost, and fit boundaries.
Examples are illustrative planning references, not customer testimonials.
Compare hardware profiles →PRINCIPLE 01
Start with requirements
Document the workload, availability, recovery, data, access, and growth assumptions first.
PRINCIPLE 02
Separate purchase from operation
A server is not finished when it arrives. Patching, monitoring, backup, recovery, documentation, and ownership still need an operator.
PRINCIPLE 03
Keep the decision reversible
Prefer staged, supportable choices that can be expanded, replaced, or migrated without trapping the business.