Why move to Virtual Server Infrastructure?
So, you need a new server for a new application. You could purchase a new server, with new disk capacity, high powered CPU and memory. But why, when your average servers are only peaking at 10-15% utilisation? Server virtualisation technology allows organisations to fully realise their server hardware investments by collapsing many physical servers into a much smaller pool of powerful, highly redundant servers each capable of hosting many “virtual” servers. Key advantages include gains in reliability, simplified maintenance and lower operating costs.
These following advantages are available through manageNET’s virtual infrastructure offerings:
*Live server migration
The ability to move active virtual servers between physical hosts. This allows critical maintenance, hardware upgrades, or complete rebuilds of host server hardware to be performed with zero downtime to live virtual servers.
*High Availability
In the event of worst case failures to either a host server or an entire primary data centre, a fully configured virtual server infrastructure will allow critical services to be restored to either surviving primary data centre host servers or to DR data centre host servers in a matter of minutes.
*Dynamic Resource Allocation
Intelligent algorithms dynamically provide optimal resources on demand to virtual machines, including moving entire virtual machines to different hosts with no noticeable server down-time.
An established virtual server infrastructure creates the ability to quickly create new servers with little or no additional capital overhead. Test environments can be quickly established, then promoted to production or dissolved, with no impact on the production environment.