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Maximise hardware utilisation & reduce ongoing infrastructure costs
Modern server hardware is often more powerful than required for the job resulting in average utilisation of only 10-15%.
Server virtualisation increases your hardware utilisation by consolidating several servers onto one physical server. Watch your infrastructure costs drop as server hardware, networking, power, cooling and space requirements all dramatically decrease.
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Increase availability
If a physical host server goes down unexpectedly all virtual servers on the host are automatically restarted on the remaining hosts increasing the availability of your servers.
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Enable disaster recovery
A virtualised server is simply several files that store the virtual hard disk and virtual machine settings. These files are easily backed up and replicated to another site making server virtualisation an excellent choice for disaster recover.
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Rapid server deployment
Virtual machine templates allow new virtual machines to be deployed in minutes rather than days making IT agile.
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Easy maintenance
Moving virtual servers between physical hosts while they are running giving you the ability to perform maintenance on a physical host without shutting down the virtual servers – just move all running virtual servers to another physical host, then shutdown your server and upgrade the memory or replace a failed component.
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Simplify management
Server resources can be modified with a few mouse clicks (adding memory, disks or virtual CPUs). Backups and restores are quick and easy. Change risk is greatly reduced by using snapshots which give you the option to rollback to a known pre-change state.
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Accurate, simple testing and development
Cloning a production virtual server provides an accurate real-world platform for testing and development. Snapshots provide a rollback to a point-in-time within seconds allowing consistent and rapid testing and re-testing.
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