Virtualisation

Many organisations are seeing explosive growth in their computing needs and are putting ever-greater demands on both IT infrastructure and IT departments to deliver results while budgets continue to tighten. IT organizations have responded by scaling out their infrastructure with low-cost, industry standard x86 servers, usually dedicating a single physical server for particular applications such as email, database or file services.

Processor speed and power continues to grow exponentially. This has led to underutilized servers running at 10-15% of capacity, data centers consuming unnecessary electric and air conditioning capacity. System administrators end up spending time on break-fix, mundane provisioning activities, or working off-hours to maintain servers and applications.

Infrastructure virtualisation addresses all of these problems by transforming IT administration.

Server Consolidation

Running applications and operating systems in virtual machines, IT administrators can consolidate multiple workloads onto a smaller number of physical servers. This consolidation of servers into virtual machines will significantly reduce capital spent of physical servers and subsequently reduce power and cooling costs.

Simplified Management

A virtual infrastructure simplifies management and provisioning. In addition to central management and monitoring, virtual machines can be deployed as easily as copying a file. Deploying a new workload now takes minutes rather than the days or weeks it takes for a physical server.

VMware Virtual Infrastructure can also manage the dynamic distribution of resources, assigning computer power to applications only when needed and to the extent needed. This results in less time aspent on simple day-to-day management tasks.

Virtualisation Benefits

VMware for your virtualisation requirements has the following benefits;

• Each server is a file that holds the operating system, applications, data, devices and state.
• Applications can access hardware through the virtualisation layer for near-native performance.   
• Multiple virtual machines can run on a single physical server,
• Creating and deploying a new server is as simple as copying a file.
• Virtual machines are hardware independent and can be moved between any two virtualised servers.

As a VMware Professional Partner DLX Networks can assist your business with migration a virtualised infrastructure. VMware Virtualisation is suited to both SMB, Midsize or Enterprise business and each sector has an applicable VMware product offering.

Small Business Virtualisation Solutions

• VMware vSphere™ Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.

• VMware vSphere™ Essentials Plus adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.

Mid-size and Enterprise Virtualisation Solutions

• VMware vSphere™ Standard provides an entry solution for basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.

• VMware vSphere™ Advanced provides a strategic consolidation solution that protects all applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability and data protection.

• VMware vSphere Enterprise provides a strategic platform for minimizing downtime, protecting applications and data, and automating resource management. VMware ESX / ESXi hosts and virtual machines vCenter Server

VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Plus includes the full range of components and features for transforming datacentres into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments that can provide the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services to their businesses.

For more detail on VMware vSphere™ and virtualisation please contact  sales or contact us on 0845 643 5586.