Virtualisation
Virtualisation allows you to run multiple operating platforms on a single server, simultaneously. Providing you have sufficient disk space, this means that a single server could be running for example Linux and Windows operating systems, all at the same time.
IBM first introduced Virtualisation in the 1960s to allow the partitioning of large mainframe environments and has continued to innovate around server virtualisation, extending it from the mainframe to the IBM System p and IBM System i product ranges.
In the industry-standard environment, VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server and Xen offerings are available for IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter systems.
Adopting a virtualisation solution simplifies your current server environment. Virtualisation can not only be applied across your server environment but to your networking and storage devices as well delivering to you a highly available, fully integrated IT infrastructure.
Effective virtualisation delivers:
- Reduced hardware costs, energy costs and server sprawl by utilising less, more powerful, efficient & cost-effective servers
- Reduced server administration costs as you have less servers to manage
- Increased server utilisation, a single server is running multiple applications, sharing resources
- Increased system flexibility, virtual servers on-line within minutes
- Access through shared infrastructure
- Managed growth, complexity and risk to you server environment
Celerity is able to offer an extensive range of industry virtualisation technologies enhanced with unrivalled virtualisation services. We are able to offer clients an effective virtualisation strategy that will help reduce energy consumption and administration time, reduce the number of physical servers in your data center whilst retaining the commitments of availability and flexibility to your business. We can help you to not only virtualise your physical server environment, but your application workloads and information also.