Server Consolidation thru Virtualisation
With virtualisation, you can dramatically cut costs by consolidating servers, reducing power consumption and accelerating application deployment.
Improve the efficiency and availability of Your IT resources and applications through virtualisation. Start by eliminating the old “one server, one application” model and run multiple virtual machines on each physical machine. Free your IT admins from spending so much time managing servers rather than innovating.
About 70% of a typical IT budget in a non-virtualized environment goes towards just maintaining the existing infrastructure, with little left for innovation.
A virtualised environment platform lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. Virtualisation delivers resources, applications—even servers—when and where they’re needed.
Customers who run a Splitsec designed and installed Virtualisation environment typically save 30-50% on overall IT costs by consolidating their existing server and delivering highly available machines.
This saving can be achieved through converting existing physical machines to virtual and not having to invest in new software versions and CAL’s. This also minimises downtime from a potential 1-2 days to 1-2 hours.
Benefits of a Splitsec Virtualised infrastructure.
- Run multiple operating systems on a single computer including Windows, Linux and more.
- Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware while increasing your server to admin ratio.
- Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and performance.
- Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout your infrastructure.
- Provision new servers when needed without the need to buy additional hardware.
- hardware independence gives you freedom to move a virtual machine from one type of x86 computer to another without making any changes to the device drivers, operating system, or applications.
What is Virtualisation?
Today’s x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application, leaving most vastly underutilised. Virtualisation lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical hardware, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that one physical across multiple environments. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical hardware.
How Does Virtualisation Work?
A Virtualisation platform is built on business-ready architecture. Using software to transform or “virtualise” the hardware resources of an x86-based computer—including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller—to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a “real” computer. Each virtual machine contains a complete system, eliminating potential conflicts. Virtualisation works by inserting a thin layer of software directly on the computer hardware or on a host operating system. This contains a virtual machine monitor or “hypervisor” that allocates hardware resources dynamically and transparently. Multiple operating systems run concurrently on a single physical computer and share hardware resources with each other. By encapsulating an entire machine, including CPU, memory, operating system, and network devices, a virtual machine is completely compatible with all standard x86 operating systems, applications, and device drivers. You can safely run several operating systems and applications at the same time on a single computer, with each having access to the resources it needs when it needs them.
Hardware Independence
Virtual machines are completely independent from their underlying physical hardware. For example, you can configure a virtual machine with virtual components (eg, CPU, network card, SCSI controller) that are completely different from the physical components that are present on the underlying hardware. Virtual machines on the same physical server can even run different kinds of operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc).
When coupled with the properties of encapsulation and compatibility, hardware independence gives you the freedom to move a virtual machine from one type of x86 computer to another without making any changes to the device drivers, operating system, or applications. Hardware independence also means that you can run a heterogeneous mixture of operating systems and applications on a single physical computer.
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