Server Virtualisation Using VMware vSphere
Increasing the use of server virtualisation has been identified as a top priority for small and medium-sized businesses throughout the UK. There are good reasons for this: virtualisation can help reduce costs, simplify management and improve application availability and disaster recovery.
Server virtualisation is having huge positive financial and operational impacts on organisations of all sizes. The ability to consolidate multiple application workloads on fewer physical servers saves money on equipment, energy and management. In addition, adding new virtual servers is simple and fast. IT automatically becomes more responsive to users when they can launch new applications in hours instead of weeks.
VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere is one of the industries most complete and robust virtualization platforms. It dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency while giving companies agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, operating systems and hardware.
Key Features
VMware vSphere transforms data centres into a dramatically simplified cloud infrastructure and enables the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services.
Leveraging VMware’s industry-leading technology and experience, VMware vSphere 4 delivers agility with uncompromised control in the most efficient manner, while fully preserving customer choice. This combination of elements makes VMware vSphere one of the best platforms for achieving the full benefits of cloud computing.
Key Features
VMware vSphere comprises a number of components that transform industry standard hardware into a shared, main-frame like resilient environment with built in service level controls for all applications.
The components of VMware vSphere are classified into:
Infrastructure Services – These components comprehensively virtualize server, storage and network resources, aggregate them and allocate them precisely on demand to applications based on business priority.
Application Services – These are components that provide built in service level controls to all applications running on the vSphere platform, regardless of application type or operating system.
VMware vCenter Server provides a central point of control for virtualization management. This is essential for administering infrastructure and application services, automation of day to day operational tasks and the scalability to manage large data centre environments.
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