Simplifying and streamlining server ownership and management through virtualisation
Most organisations have large numbers of servers spread across multiple locations and departments, each typically running a single application. This results in expensive duplication of resources, inefficiency, management complexity and unnecessary IT hardware and software spend.
If you are considering Server Virtualisation as part of your organisation’s IT strategy ask yourself some of the questions below and find out today how your business is set to benefit.
| Questions: |
Answers: |
| Do you have multiple individual servers each supporting a single application such as accounts, Exchange, web, mail…? |
Server virtualisation offers the opportunity to adopt a more innovative approach to deploying and managing your servers. |
| Are you already running a primary data centre or considering consolidating and centralising your servers? |
It will provide a strategic framework for consolidating, simplifying and centralising servers and other key IT resources. |
| How much expensive energy is being used to power and cool these servers – are you concerned about power availability and the price of electricity? |
Power consumption and cooling will be dramatically reduced. These savings alone could cover the cost of deploying virtualisation. |
| How quick can extra capacity be provided to meet business demand? |
You will have more flexibility to roll out extra capacity and the ability to react more quickly to the demands of the business. |
| How hard do you servers work? Are processing power and storage capacity locked up on individual servers and going to waste? |
It will substantially reduce the number of physical servers, thereby significantly improving utilisation per server and more efficient use of storage. |
| Who controls your servers: the central IT function or end-user departments? Will the launch of a service or branch generate a burst of new server activity? Are there new applications to be rolled out? |
Centralising servers in a single location will enable you to target and deploy IT skills more effectively and control standards across your organisation. |
| Should a machine go down, how fast and effective would disaster recovery be? |
Business continuity processes and technologies will be easier to deploy, while virtual servers enable rapid fail-over in the event of a crash. |
Virtualise IT with Celerity
Celerity’s team of experts are able to work with clients to help you decide on the best way to implement server virtualisation across your enterprise and with our carefully selected products give you complete control over your entire IT infrastructure. Implementing server virtualisation will impact other key areas of your infrastructure, in particular your network, desktop, storage, security and applications, all of which can be virtualised and optimised to achieve similar benefits.
Assess the Capacity of your IT Infrastructure
Celerity is an authorised partner of VMware and we are able to offer clients a Capacity Planning Audit to assess your current IT infrastructure for virtualisation readiness, helping your organisation plan for future long-term growth.
VMware Capacity Planner is a capacity planning tool that collects comprehensive resource utilisation data in heterogeneous IT environments and compares it to industry standard reference data to provide analysis and decision support modeling.