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Organisations today want an effective
and efficient IT infrastructure without escalating costs.
Consolidation and virtualisation approaches offer a strategic
way of improving existing infrastructure performance, making
it more flexible and adaptable while reducing support and
maintenance costs at the same time.
Consolidation and virtualisation gives organisations a more
efficient IT infrastructure at a lower cost, providing benefits
such as improved resource utilisation (people, space and energy),
increased flexibility in delivery of services, simplified
back-up procedures, platform independence and decreased on-going
maintenance costs. Organisations will also experience significant
peripheral benefits in disaster recovery and the reduced speed
of deployment of new applications and services.
Virtualisation essentially lets one server do the job
of multiple servers, by sharing the resources of a single
computer across multiple environments. Virtual servers let
you host multiple operating systems and multiple applications
locally and in remote locations, freeing you from physical
and geographical limitations. In addition to energy savings
and lower capital expenses due to more efficient use of your
hardware resources, you get high availability of resources,
better management, increased security, and improved disaster
recovery processes when you build a virtual infrastructure.
Virtualization lets you transform hardware into software.
Using software such as VMware ESX to “virtualise”
the hardware resources of an x86-based computer (including
the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller) it is possible
to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run
its own operating system and applications just like a physical
machine.
Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without
interfering with each other so that you can safely run several
operating systems and applications at the same time on a single
physical machine.
VMware solutions involve inserting a thin layer of software
directly on the computer hardware or on a host operating system.
This software layer creates virtual machines and contains
a virtual machine monitor or hypervisor that allocates hardware
resources dynamically and transparently so that multiple operating
systems can run concurrently on a single physical computer
with no evident change.
Virtualising a single physical computer is just the beginning.
VMware offers a virtualisation platform that can scale across
many hundreds of physical machines and storage devices to
form an entire virtual infrastructure. As a VMware VIP Enterprise
Partner your dedicated Commercial consultant will be able
to advise and implement a solution that fits both your business
and budgetary needs.
Platespin
From Platespin, Commercial IT Services can offer solutions
to ease the migration of machines from a physical to a virtual
(and back again if required) environment. Commercial also
use Platespin to provide a workload assessment of a physical
server estate in order to allow for the proper planning and
design of the virtual environment.
Vizioncore
Commercial implement the Vizioncore suite of ‘Virtual
Eco-System’ software to fully leverage the power of
your new virtual environment. Vizioncore software provides
the ability for hot-backups, whole Virtual machine replication
and monitoring, reporting and chargeback of the new system.
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