What is virtualisation?
Virtualisation transforms physical network devices, infrastructure, servers and storage into virtual components, allowing organisations to consolidate IT equipment, increase utilisation and reduce costs.
How can virtualisation help your business?
A virtual host system is a physical server, running specialised software, that shares its processing capacity, memory and storage with many virtual machines (VM).
Virtual machines have many advantages over multiple physical servers;
- Hugely improved utilisation of hardware and lower energy use, reducing costs
- Easily add new VMs for testing or production as required
- Quickly add additional processing power, memory or storage to a VM
- Safer operating system and application upgrades, using storage snapshots
- High availability, multiple virtual host systems combine to ensure that services keep running in the event of a hardware failure
- Zero downtime backups
While virtualisation is a really great solution, it sometimes raises so many questions that it is difficult to design the right architecture for your specific business needs. This is where Blueloop’s expertise is vital to ensure that you implement the right solution for your business.