Vmware Virutalization
Vmware Introduction
Since 2001 Vmware has set the benchmark standard for virtualization performance, scalability and reliability. Coupled with the fact that VMware customers typically report a rapid return on investment of around 6-9 months, it is not surprising that Vmware's customer base includes 95% of the companies in the Fortune Global 500.
Benefits of Vmware Virtualisation
Key Benefits of Vmware Virtualization:
- Save money and streamline operations with server consolidation and containment by running software applications on fewer servers
- Provide effective high availability and disaster recovery for your business applications at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions
- Provide a highly manageable foundation for leveraging cloud computing, whether private or hybrid
Why Vmware?
Vmware stands ahead in the server virtualization marketplace due to the following technology advantages:
- Maturity - ESX/ESXi Hypervisor technology that has been proven in tens of thousands of customer environments
- Maximum density for maximum savings per application - run virtual machines at twice the consolidated ratio possible with other first-generation hypervisors through Vmware's leading features (Memory Oversubscription, Direct Driver Model, DRS with Resource Pools, High Performance "Gang" Scheduler, Support for Large Memory Pages and Nested Page Tables)
- Integrate with existing infrastructure - virtualize any environment, from the corporate datacenter to the branch office, with a compatibility list that includes over a thousand server and storage systems, and the broadest range of supported guest operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Netware, and Solaris
- Maximum Availability - achieve effective high availability with shared storage, SAN transparency, built-in storage access multipathing and support for Microsoft Clustering Services
- Enhanced Security - improve infrastructure security with LUN zoning and masking, VLAN traffic tagging and filtering, and enforcing security at the Ethernet layer
- Improve Data Manageability - leverage high performance shared storage for greater manageability, flexibility and availability with VMware VMFS - a high performance cluster file system optimised for virtual environments
- Ultimate Manageability - benefit from built-in migration, aggregation, allocation, power management, availability services and also Live Migration with VMotion technology
Foehn - The Experts in Vmware
With a diverse range of Vmware deployments in critical datacentre's under its belt Foehn can offer solid expertise to make the P2V process safe and the end result highly efficient for years ahead.
