M9 Systems’ Virtualized Dedicated Servers
allow businesses at all levels to leverage the benefits of VMware
server Virtualization without the need for significant upfront expenditure
for server, SAN storage, network and security devices.
VMware environments can be complex to manage and require a significant
level of expertise and certification. That's why you can rely on M9
Systems’ expert knowledge, skills and staff to support and run
your own 24/7 VMware environment for you.
Why Virtualize?
3 key reasons why more and more companies are opting to virtualize
their IT infrastructure are:
- Organizations utilize computers and software more intensively
in everyday business than realistically envisaged. As a result,
the computing power and the amounts of data that are critical to
our businesses are ever increasing..
- At the same time, costs of running all these computers and servers
are also increasing exponentially.
- Ominously, the future of our environment is in the balance as
we must improve the technologies we depend on.
Virtualization of IT infrastructure is the future model for IT as
it supports high-performance organizations, and M9 Systems is very
much a part of transition.
- Virtualization offers a flexible and efficient way of delivering
IT processing power and applications at exactly the time and place
needed, while minimizing overcapacity, redundancy and unnecessary
costs.
- With a virtualization layer in place, organizations can share
their computing capacity across all business systems, leading to
overall reduction in redundant data center capacity and an increased
use of base assets.
How Does VMware Server Virtualization Work?
In essence, virtualization lets you transform hardware into software.
- M9 Systems employs the VMware ESX Server platform to transform
or “virtualize” the hardware resources of an x86-based
server or Mac server or Linux server—including the CPU, RAM,
hard disk and network controller—to create a fully functional
virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications
just like a “real” computer.
- Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without interfering
with each other so that you can safely run several operating systems
and applications at the same time on a single server.
- M9 Systems’ VMware platform is summarized in the diagram
below. By decoupling the entire software environment from its underlying
hardware infrastructure, virtualization enables the aggregation
of multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks into shared
pools of resources that can be delivered dynamically, securely and
reliably to applications as needed.
Diagram showing Basic Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Server Virtualization - Key Benefits
Hosted virtual machines deliver better availability
than dedicated servers because they can be migrated from one server
to another with no downtime. Hosted virtual machines are also easier
to scale without purchasing additional hardware, and more
secure because each virtual machine is completely abstracted
from the hardware and isolated from other virtual machines.
Virtualized VMware Servers allow you to -
- Enjoy superior levels of agility, performance, scalability, and
business continuity.
- Reduce hardware costs while ensuring your critical applications
remain available and responsive to customers.
- Consolidate IT Infrastructure and save power.
- Leverage existing processes, certifications, skills, and industry
leading 24x7 Data Centers.
- Save power & consolidate server sprawl.
Additional benefits include -
- optimum availability
- dynamic load balancing
- flexibility to provision and deploy new workloads in minutes,
not hours
- rapid recovery from failures
- pay only for the computing capacity you require
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