Infrastructure Virtualisation

Infrastructure Virtualisation > Business issues

For too long, businesses have been limited in their flexibility by tying applications to a physical server. As the requirements of the application increase, or shrink, the underlying hardware is either stretched to capacity or under utilised. All too often, it’s the latter with many servers, particularly in the x86 family, running at less than 5% processor utilisation.

Not only does this restrict the way in which a business can change, it leads to a poor use of valuable data centre space, not to mention the energy consumed in powering and cooling this infrastructure.

Abstraction of the logical devices from the physical components is vital and this also allows many other benefits to be enjoyed. The ability to “move” virtual servers from one physical device to another whilst running, without any downtime, allows for greater service levels to be achieved when maintenance is required. As workloads vary, so it is possible to dynamically move servers to more appropriate hardware infrastructure to allow the investment of the business to be used to the best possible effect.

Infrastructure Virtualisation > The Anix Service

Anix is able to design, implement, support and manage a virtualisation platform from which to deploy your applications. As a VMware Authorised Hosting Partner, we are familiar with the operational benefits that come from a virtual environment and can help you obtain the maximum benefit from your infrastructure investment whilst freeing up valuable space and reducing energy consumption in the data centre.

In addition, Anix is able to identify how virtualisation can transform your disaster recovery plans and give you the ability to recover with only a modest outlay in time and cost.

Infrastructure Virtualisation > Key benefits

• Reduce the number of physical devices in your data centres
• Improve the flexibility of delivering new applications and services
• Allow applications to run in the most appropriate infrastructure, monitored dynamically
• Enable maintenance to take place with minimal impact upon your service levels