Virtualisation

Virtualisation Technology

While virtualisation initially was a very expensive and untested product it has become a priority for a lot of companies as the days of having a single server environment become a thing of the past. With each additional server comes additional hardware costs that can be minimized by the intelligent use of virtualisation.

What is virtualisation?

Virtualisation is the technology that allows you to simultaneously run a number of server environments on a single hardware platform with no perceptible performance loss and full functionality.

What are the benefits of Virtualisation?

The primary benefit is the cost saving on necessary hardware but other benefits include a space saving , power savings and improved Disaster Recovery options due to the fact that you can now create live snapshots.

There are different Virtualisation technologies available, which do WIT use?

Being Microsoft Partners with various competencies have chosen to use Microsoft Hyper-V Server as our virtualisation method of choice. An excerpt from the Microsoft website:

“Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a stand-alone product that provides a simplified, reliable, cost-effective, and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. It allows organizations to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server and is a good solution for organizations that want a basic and simplified virtualization solution for consolidating servers as well as for development and test environments. Low utilization infrastructure workloads, departmental applications, and simple branch office workloads are also candidates to virtualize using Hyper-V Server.”

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