Virtualisation & VMware

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people design their IT infrastructure.

Today’s powerful computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating system and a single application, but virtualization breaks that bond, making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time, vastly increasing the utilisation and flexibility of hardware. 

Virtualisation can:

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%
• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
• Help provide a cost effective highly available core infrastructure

Sample Configuration

There are many many ways of using virtualisation within your company's infrastructure, the example above is one that many of our clients have found suits their needs best. Call us to find out more.

Quadris offer a full capacity planning service to ensure your new or existing hardware is specified correctly to handle the proposed virtualised workload. We offer a full design and implementation service for virtualising your server infrastructure.

Quadris specialise in the combining the use of VMware technologies and SAN technology to provide highly available core infrastructures.

Benefits

The configuration on the left has many benefits and show how extensively virtualisation can be used to give organisations a highly available, easily managed, cost effective and efficient infrastructure.

The ESX server stores the server images on the local SAN with the storage benefits a SAN can bring. New servers can be built from a pre-designed images in an instant. VMware itself will actively manage the server resources based on the loads applied to each server.

V Motion can be used to 'relicate' the server images between the 2 VMware boxes for additonal resilience and taking that a step further the local SAN can then be replicated off site to a secure datacentre which houses another SAN device.

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