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Virtualization is becoming increasingly popular with many IT organizations today. It can be described as the use of software to emulate physical devices -- a server or a storage device. The major appeal of virtualization is that it allows IT to reduce its quantity of servers (and their attendant operating costs) by making full use of each server's processing power and memory. Virtualization can help optimize the utilization and resources within your company's IT infrastructure. Our virtualization Services are designed to assist you with all aspects of your virtualization initiatives from strategy and planning to implementation and migration.
Given the close scrutiny of tight IT budgets and costs, organizations must seek new ways to meet current data center challenges to deliver a higher level of service.
Server Virtualisation Solution separates applications from the underlying physical infrastructure. It enables applications to run on virtual servers. This breaks the one-to-one correspondence between applications and server caused by application design and the difficulty of running more than one application on the same server.
Benefits of Virtualisation:
- Consolidate Existing Servers - existing servers can be consolidated into a reduced number. This recovers floor space and reduces server operating costs and environmental requirements.
- Contain Server Growth– server growth is contained as servers are reused and made available to new applications.
- Ease of Implementation – Server Virtualisation can be implemented without any application changes unlike application partitioning which requires substantial effort.
- Adaptive Flexible Computer Resources – demand for additional computing resources can be addressed easily and quickly. Additional resources can be distributed across all applications
- Ease of Management and Administration – the management of virtual servers is made easier and simpler.
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery– a simplified server infrastructure and the erver virtualisation layer makes recovery to a backup facility quicker and easier.
This all translates into the single tangible benefit of reduced costs. Hardware and software costs can be reduced by 50% to 80%. Operational costs can be reduced by 40% to 90%.
Server Virtualisation Solution and Approach
We partner with VMware in providing server consolidation and virtualisation solutions based on VMware ESX Server and VirtualCentre technologies which will deliver all the benefits of server virtualisation.Our unique, industry leading skills around Project Management with our Project Management Office (PMO), ensures a end-to-end approach to providing a solution to our customers which is clear, consistent and tailored to your individual needs. In taking such an approach it ensures a high degree of project success, measurability and accountability.
We can conduct a server analysis and server virtualisation readiness assessment exercise. This involves conducting an analysis to identify the best solution for your environment.
It involves the following elements:
Site Discovery
- Server and Application Inventory
- Virtualisation Architecture and Implementation Options
- Identification of Virtualisation Exclusions
- Quantification of Cost Savings
- Definition of Virtualisation Benefits
Virtualisation Architecture and Planning
- Definition of Physical Architecture
- Definition of System Management Model
- Implementation Roadmap and Schedule
- System Availability and Continuity of Operations
Virtualisation Rapid Start / Proof of Concept
- VMWare ESX Deployment
- VirtualCentre Deployment
- Infrastructure Deployment
Virtualisation Implementation
- Project Planning
- Virtualisation Installation, Configuration and Implementation
- Server Migration
- Documentation, Training and Handover
- Maintenance, Support and Administration
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