System & Application Virtualization
TGC can provide a company with options for virtualization, using software to emulate a clients' hardware or total computer environment. System & Application Virtualization offers many benefits such as hardware efficiency, increasing administrator productivity and IT responsiveness. Virtualization is a key enabling technology to allow companies to reduce costs and risk while increasing quality and agility in their IT infrastructure.
NOTE: While the folowing description focuses on a VMware based solution please be aware that TGC is staunchly vendor agnostic and will always review the requirements of and confirm the suitability for a client's virtual infrastrustructure needs.
VMware ESX is virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing systems in mission critical environments. ESX and VMware Virtual Infrastructure Nodes provide a highly scalable virtual machine platform with advanced resource management capabilities, which can be managed by VMware VirtualCenter.
Ideally suited for enterprise datacenters, ESX minimizes the total cost of ownership (TCO) of computing infrastructure by increasing resource utilization, minimizing maintenance downtime and maximizing server manageability.
VMware ESX allows enterprises to:
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Implement server consolidation- ESX consolidates branch office and datacenter mission critical applications and infrastructure services such as Exchange, SQL Server, Notes and Oracle, running on diverse operating systems onto fewer highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class servers, including blade servers.
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Respond faster with virtual infrastructure- VMware Virtual Infrastructure Nodes (comprising ESX, VMotion, Storage VMotion, DRS, HA) can be deployed and managed with VMware vCenter to transform your IT infrastructure into virtual infrastructure. Virtual infrastructure allows IT organizations respond faster to business demands with instant provisioning of virtual machines and dynamic resource allocation to those virtual machines as business needs change.
Deploying ESX and vCenter creates a unified disaster recovery (DR) platform that allows many production servers to be recovered on a single DR server, eliminating the need for costly 1-to-1 mapping of production and DR servers. The hardware independence of virtual machine frees customers from the need to maintain identical hardware at their production and DR sites.
ESX transforms physical systems into a pool of logical computing resources. Operating systems and applications are isolated in multiple virtual machines that reside on a single physical server. System resources are dynamically allocated to virtual machines based on need and administrator set guarantees, providing mainframe-class capacity utilization and control of server resources.
ESX uses a unique bare-metal architecture that inserts a small and highly robust virtualization layer between the x86 server hardware and the virtual machines. This approach gives ESX complete control over the server resources allocated to each virtual machine and it avoids the performance overhead, availability concerns and costs of server virtualization architectures built on a host operating system. VMware has evolved ESX since its introduction in 2001 to support powerful features such as Virtual SMP and VMotion hot migrations, greatly extending its lead over generic virtualization technologies.
ESX simplifies server infrastructure by partitioning and isolating server resources in secure and portable virtual machines. ESX enables these server resources to be remotely managed and automatically provisioned. Advanced resource management controls allow IT administrators to guarantee service levels across the enterprise. ESX runs directly on the system hardware to provide a secure, uniform platform for deploying, managing, and remotely controlling multiple virtual machines.
Features and Benefits:
¨ Instantly deploy new virtual machines to any server as the business demands using hardware independent templates.
¨ Streamline data center operations and reduce hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding eight virtual machines per physical processor.
¨ Perform zero-downtime maintenance on live systems without interrupting service.
¨ Load balance workloads across a farm of servers using VMotion to respond to spikes in load and to safely increase farm wide utilization, maximizing return on hardware investment.
¨ Guarantee service levels to applications and dynamically change the service level guarantees.
¨ Automate all activities using the VMware Virtual Infrastructure SDK.
¨ Manage ESX and their virtual machines remotely from any location using the management applications you already own or tools from VMware.
Key Questions:
¨ Are you interested in lowering the TCO for your infrastructure?
¨ Are you interested in reducing downtime in your environment?
¨ Have you considered server consolidation in the past?
Key Contact:
Regina Theresa Jordan
Business Development Manager
(347) 515-6586
Regina.Jordan@TGC-Global.com
