Virtualization
Your business needs are the driving force behind dynamically mapping the physical resources of your infrastructure to applications — even as those needs evolve and change. This resource optimization drives greater flexibility in the organization and results in lower capital and operational costs. For example, aggregating your x86 servers along with network and storage into a unified pool of IT resources that can be utilized by the applications when and where they’re needed.
Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualization Software
- Get more out of your existing resources: Pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation.
- Reduce datacenter costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio: Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced real estate and reduced power and cooling requirements. Better management tools let you improve your server to admin ratio so personnel requirements are reduced as well.
- Increase availability of hardware and applications for improved business continuity: Securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from unplanned issues.
- Gain operational flexibility: Respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
- Improve desktop manageability and security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.
A Virtual Infrastructure consists of the following components:
- Bare-metal hypervisors to enable full virtualization of each x86 computer
- Virtual infrastructure services such as resource management and consolidated backup to optimize available resources among virtual machines
- Automation solutions that provide special capabilities to optimize a particular IT process such as provisioning or disaster recovery
Decouple your software environment from its underlying hardware to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks into shared pools of resources. Then dynamically deliver those resources, securely and reliably, to applications as needed. This pioneering approach lets our customers use building blocks of inexpensive industry-standard servers to build a self-optimizing data center and deliver high levels of utilization, availability, automation and flexibility.
Bring the benefits of Virtual Infrastructure to your data center?
VMware Infrastructure 3 unifies discrete hardware resources to create a shared dynamic platform while delivering built-in availability, security and scalability to applications. It supports a wide range of operating systems and application environments, as well as storage infrastructure.
We have designed our solutions to function independently of the hardware and operating system so you have a broad platform choice. Our solutions provide a key integration point for hardware and infrastructure management vendors and partners — delivering differentiated value that can be applied uniformly across all applications and operating systems.
Our customers report dramatic results when they adopt our virtual infrastructure solutions, including:
- 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in non-virtualized PCs)
- Cost savings of more than $3,275 annually for every workload virtualized
- Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks
- 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime
