Virtualization
Virtualisation enables server consolidation, simplifies management and reduces cost. Virtualisation is changing the way organisations approach the provisioning, management and control of their IT infrastructures and Securelinx offers broad experience supporting customers through the transition form physical to virtual environments using either VMware or XEN.
Consolidation:
Virtualisation – enabling multiple servers and services to co-exist on a single platform -greatly reduces server numbers while increasing resource efficiency (disks, CPU usage etc). Consolidation can significantly reduce operating costs and offers numerous benefits in areas such as containment and disaster recovery.
Containment:
The practice of continuously purchasing platforms to satisfy a new line of business application is highly inefficient and adds to server proliferation . By running multiple operating systems and applications on a single virtualised environment however, server containment can be achieved and new applications can rapidly be provisioned on existing hardware.
VMware
With both VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and VMware Sales Professional (VSP) accreditations our team is well placed to architect and deliver virtualisation solutions from VMware – the market leading virtualisation solution Vendor. Our deployment experience of ESX enterprise solutions, both for HA, Vmotion and DRS are well established, while our real world experience of integrating VMware’s solutions into both iSCSI and SAN environments is particularly well regarded.
Xen
XEN is a highly robust, well-engineered open source virtualisation platform that is available as standard within enterprise Linux distributions such as Novell’s SuSE Linux and Red Hat’s Advanced Platform. XEN offers a cost effective way to deploy virtualisation. The interoperability agreement between Novell and Microsoft ensures full support for all Microsoft platforms virtualised on XEN – with SuSE Linux and Novell’s acquisition of virtualisation Vendor Platespin, further enhancing this solution portfolio.
