Introduction
VMware's virtual infrastructure simplifies IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster.Tackling Server Sprawl
Current IT infrastructures consist of many servers, where each one is dedicated to a single application or service. As this server sprawl' grows, management and provisioning become increasingly complex and time consuming. Servers are typically sized for peak loads, but average utilization is commonly only 5-15% - a huge waste of resource; virtual infrastructures allow x86 servers to achieve 60-80% utilization with ease.Decreasing provisioning time
Using virtual infrastructure, hardware can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power to be allocated and de-allocated on the fly; thus the business can respond more rapidly to changing requirements as they occur. Provisioning new applications/services can be reduced to minutes not days; change requests response times can be reduced from hours (or even days) to minutes.VMotion
Unique to VMware is VMotion technology, whereby live, running virtual machines can be moved from one physical system to another while maintaining continuous service availability. VMotion thus allows fast reconfiguration and optimization of resources across the virtual infrastructure.Remove hardware dependence
Virtualisation removes an application services' dependency on the underlying hardware, allowing zero-downtime hardware maintenance with no waiting for maintenance windows'. Older services can be migrated from aging/obsolete hardware without worrying about driver/hardware support issues on the latest server technology thus saving on costly maintenance. Furthermore, business continuity and disaster recovery are greatly simplified as maintaining specific builds for each hardware platform becomes irrelevant each virtual server sees an identical hardware profile.Operating System Support
VMware is the only provider of high-performance virtualization products that give customers a real choice in operating systems. VMware supports: Windows; Linux; FreeBSD; NetWare; and Solaris x86. Microsoft Virtual Server only supports other (current) Microsoft operating systems, which in today's varied infrastructure restricts its value in a production environment.Established customer base
VMware's virtual infrastructure products and solutions have been running at customer sites since 2001, with more than 75% of customers running ESX Server in production deployments. As the clear x86 virtualization market leader, VMware is uniquely positioned to continue providing robust, supportable, high performance virtual infrastructure for real-world, enterprise data center applications.Why it matters?
The VMware virtual infrastructure architecture enables businesses to lower IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Managing a virtual infrastructure allows IT to quickly connect and manage resources to business needs.VMware Products and Services
Solution Centre has expertise with VMware products and vendors such as Cassatt & VirtuGo. Cassatt & VirtuGo offer additional features to VMware that solve important issues for businesses. Cassatt for example automates disaster recovery of servers, while VirtuGo provides tools to optimise performance....Xsigo I/O Virtualisation for VMware
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