Virtualisation

Virtualisation > Business issues

The number of x86 servers has mushroomed beyond all recognition yet very few are achieving anything better than 5% CPU utilisation. These servers also consume vast quantities of energy to power and cool, not to mention the vital space they occupy in the data centre.

Additionally, there are the operational costs incurred from the vast number of physical servers which require maintenance, firmware upgrades and physical support. How can maintenance be carried out without taking these critical servers out of service? As application availability is an increasing issue for many businesses, how can we make the architecture more resilient without adding unnecessary complexity?

Frequently, there are long delays in deploying these servers, not least from the procurement process but also with the operating system build, patching and physical deployment. All too often, many of these servers are simply clones of existing builds, perhaps for system or user testing and sometimes just for a relatively short period of time.

Virtualisation > The Anix Service

Anix’s experienced and accredited consultants are able to analyse, design and implement your virtual infrastructure. Skills are available across leading products such as VMware and XenServer. As a VMware Authorised Hosting Partner, Anix is able to bring real-world operational experience to bear upon the recommendations that we make. We provide practical understanding of associated VMotion, ESX, Virtual Centre and VI3 components and the dynamic resource scheduling, high availability and application failover technologies.

Our consultants are also skilled in complementary technologies and understand the associated storage and server platforms along with the network components.

By working with you and your team, you will become more skilled and experienced with the technologies you select and implement which will in turn lead to greater operational efficiencies in your day-to-day work.

Virtualisation > Key benefits

• Understand the virtualisation marketplace from an independent viewpoint
• Obtain real-world practical experience from working with a VMware Authorised Hosting Partner
• Design an appropriate virtual platform for your servers
• Massively increase the utilisation of your x86 server installation
• Reduce the energy needed to power and cool your data centre
• Free up valuable data centre space
• Make your applications more available
• Enable hardware maintenance to take place without service interruption
• Improve the cost base for delivering your applications