The challenge: More with less

Many companies are searching for new technologies and strategies to simplify their IT and reduce their IT-related costs. Until recently, the IT infrastructure of companies has usually been limited for budget and space reasons.

A virtualised IT infrastructure is able to provide you with significant advantages - among others, IT consolidation, reduced and from a single source. IBM and VMware make things easy for you. They offer a cost-efficient entry into the virtualised IT world for small to medium-sized companies with VMware ESX4 hypervisor, installed on one or more powerful IBM BladeCenter HS22 XM Bladeservers in a BladeCenter S chassis.

Integrated storage, virtualized IT

If you decide to virtualise your IT with Autowork, you expect to see an increase in your business and IT performance/expect to see an increase in your business and IT performance. If, however, you decide to employ VMware on a BladeCenter server from our business partner IBM, you will discover a complete change in your business and IT.

Now you will be able to integrate individual servers, storage, networks, applications and hardware in one chassis. This is much more cost-efficient than conventional server structures. Apart from the reduced complexity and lower costs, the BladeCenter S offers an internal SAS-based storage area network (SAN) with which you can expand wit additional Disks.

Your benefits at a glance:

• Reduced complexity with integrated storage modules, servers and networks

• Easy installation and configuration

• All benefits of SAN technology, with little complexity and costs, will be maintained; you will save space, cost and development time.

• Implementation of working and live load with zero downtime

• Reduction of resources and simple system management

• Minimizing power consumption and cooling efficiency

The HS22 blade servers support all VMware virtualisation features, ensuring that your IT infrastructure will be provided from one single source. The VMware ESXi hypervisor will save development and set-up time for the virtual systems from the point of server initiation. VMware on a BladeCenter S will lead to significant cost savings and offers the following advantages:

Reduced complexity

The highly integrated IT infrastructure simplifies the application of servers and storage and reduces the resource requirements necessary to control the system.

Improved effectiveness, reduced costs

Virtualise your IT in order to obtain an IT infrastructure which is well-equipped and low in cost and maintenance. You will not sacrifice any performance and will receive a space and energy-saving, low noise and low heat management construct that is universally applicable.

Intelligent and affordable administration of your system

The IBM system director and the IBM virtualisation manager will help you manage the physical and virtual resources from one single source.

Dynamic implementation and optimal distribution of available performance without interruption

The effectively utilised SAS storage compatibility for VMware and VMotion enables you to transfer a virtual machine live from one server to the other without any interruption to service. A system connection will always be available.

Quick and easy configuration

The innovative BladeCenter S Design reduces the requirements on cables by up to 80 percent, as opposed to conventional server cabinets; this saves installation time and cost for cables. The setup flyer, which is included in the delivery scope of the BladeCenter S, will quickly and easily get you "up and running".

Effective conversion of the physical machines to virtual machines

The VMware vCenter Server (previously called VirtualCenter) contains a built-in consolidation programme to convert your physical machines to virtual machines as fast and simple as possible.

IBM BladeCenter S:

Fixed integration, flexible IT

• Integrates servers, storage, networks and applications to form one system

• Requires conventional office sockets (100-240V)

• Integrates modular and flexible IT technology with blade servers that support all conventional operating systems.

• Saves the environment with high-performance IBM Cool Blue Technologies and includes a software inventory such as the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

• Supports the installation of 7U rack-optimised chassis with six blade server bays and room for four network switches, a dozen "hot swap" hard disks and a SAN Controller.

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