Virtualisation Solutions

Infrastructure virtualisation is the increasingly popular option for forward thinking business who want the flexibility to work on the move with an IT infrastructure that can grow with the business.

Virtualisation also lends itself well to disaster recovery and green IT requirements.

Virtualisation technologies mean that you can implement a scalable, reliable and high availability network at a reduced cost in comparison to physical alternatives.

Our VMWare accreditation is demonstrative of our expertise in designing and implementing, deploying and maintaining a virtual network so that you can benefit from the portable reliable infrastructure.

What is ‘Server Virtualisation’?
Server virtualisation provides the means to partition a single, physical microcomputer, allowing it to host multiple server operating systems. The concept of server virtualisation is not new; it has been common place in mainframe computer systems for over three decades. It is only in recent years, with the development of microcomputer virtualisation that the technology has been within the economic reach of the SME.

Server virtualisation provides the means to consolidate hardware resources such as memory, CPU and disk space. Multiple microcomputers may be consolidated into a single ‘pool’ of hardware resources available to the virtual platform.
A virtualisation software application divides the pool of hardware resources into multiple, isolated virtual environments. It is common to see server hardware consolidation ratios of more than 5:1.

Why do I need to virtualise my servers?
Many physical servers host very light applications where utilisation may average as low as 10% of the available hardware resource. There may be infrequent peaks of resource demand which is often justification for ‘over specifying’ hardware requirements at the time of implementation.

Server sprawl can occur where many of these low usage servers are not only wasting internal hardware resource but also valuable datacentre resources such as power, cooling, and physical space.
Server virtualisation mitigates server sprawl by consolidating hardware resource, reducing energy and cooling demands and improving the physical space required to host these devices.

Server virtualisation also improves administration as multiple servers can be managed through a single software console. Administration can be further improved through virtualising backup and disaster recovery where again, a single software console is used to manage multiple server hosts.
Server Containment – This is an incremental approach to virtualising the workload. New projects are provisioned with virtual machines rather than physical ones deferring expensive hardware procurement.

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