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For many organisations the advent of WINTEL based computing opened the doors to a flexible way to deploy corporate applications and store data.
However, almost two decades down the road this flexible architecture has often developed into a sprawling mass of servers that is both time consuming to manage and expensive to maintain.
Typically, servers are procured to run a single application or operating system.
This in itself presents no real problem but with the considerable power of today's AMD Opteron & Intel Xeon™ chip sets, these servers are often significantly under utilised - in real terms spending much of the working day idle!
For many years proprietary mainframe vendors have been able to partition their systems to allow multiple virtual servers running a variety of operating systems to co-exist on a single platform. Traditionally, the downside of this approach has been cost.
The ideal solution for most organisations would be the ability to partition WINTEL based servers to run multiple operating systems and applications, unleashing the true potential of the hardware in a cost effective & reliable way.
VMware Inc has developed software that is revolutionising the way the world deploys WINTEL servers.
VMware ESX Server software allows AMD Opteron & Intel Xeon based servers to be partitioned to run up to 48 isolated virtual machines that support all commonly used operating systems on a single physical server platform. Support is provided for Windows 2000 Server™, Windows Server™ 2003 & Windows NT from Microsoft™, Redhat Linux™ & Novell Netware™
Endorsed by major hardware vendors such as HP, IBM & Dell, VMware™
software allows you to realise the full potential of today's high
performance AMD & Intel servers.
An even more compelling argument to adopt a VMware™ strategy is the
advent of VMware VirtualCenter™
and VMotion™
technology which allows virtual machines to be moved seamlessly to
alternative host server platforms without downtime, creating continuous
service availability.
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Consolidate a large number of under utilised legacy servers to a small number of Intel Xeon™ based servers |
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Save valuable time and money on support and administration |
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Save money on hardware maintenance |
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Implement low cost high availability |
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Co-exist test environments running different operating systems on a single server platform. |
For further information on server consolidation, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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