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Virtual Infrastructure

How does it work?

The virtual hardware platform is implemented by virtual machines by VMware and enables an effective virtual infrastructure. It creates a uniform hardware image - implemented within the software - on which operating systems and applications can be executed. Building upon this platform are VMware products that enable the administration and provision of virtual computers, continuous workload consolidation between the physical servers and the use of VMotion^™technology to guarantee the mobility of the virtual machines.

Thanks to virtual infrastructure, IT organizations are able to offer new services and change the amount of resources allocated to a software service, at any time. Hardware management is completely isolated from software management, and the hardware equipment can be considered as being a uniform pool for processing, storage and network services, which can be allocated and deallocated to and from the various software services very swiftly and flexibly.

What is a Virtual Infrastructure?

A virtual infrastructure creates an abstraction level between computer, storage and network hardware and the software on which it runs. It simplifies IT to enable companies to lower their costs and react more quickly through improved employment of their storage, network and computer resources. Inside a virtual infrastructure, users see the resources as though they had been especially assigned to them. The administrator manages and optimizes the resources on a global level for the entire company.

Why is Virtualisation Important?

The particular architecture of the VMware's virtual infrastructure enables companies to lower their IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Effective management of a virtual infrastructure makes it easy to reallocate IT resources quickly, along with changing business requirements. By using virtual infrastructure, IT organizations are able to provide new services and change the amount of resources dedicated to a particular software service at any time. The data centre can thus be used in form of an integrated and universal pool for processing, storage and network services.

The introduction of a virtual infrastructure enables IT to react flexibly to a variety of business requirements:

increases utilization of Intel servers from currently 5 - 15 % to 60 - 80 %
reduces provisioning time for new applications from days to just a few seconds
makes response time to change requests a matter of minutes
simplifies hardware maintenance without interruption to service and without planning for maintenance windows.

How Can Virtualisation Help Me?

Virtualisation enables companies to lower their costs, react more quickly, and provide flexible and consistent IT.

Lower costs

You only pay for the components you are actually using
You benefit more from your IT investment
Strategic IT investments can be separated more easily from daily IT tasks

Quicker response to business requirements

Easier integration of clients and partners
Expansion, mergers and takeovers can be performed in less time
Resources can be provided promptly or shifted to those business areas or departments where they are needed

Providing more flexible and more consistent IT

Benefiting from already available technology: SAN, vLAN
Cheaper platform options
Less risks and improved responses