Virtualization
Server Virtualization
Why Should I Virtualize My Servers?
When discussing the benefits of virtualization for your servers, the benefits of virtualization in general apply:
- Get more out of your existing resources.
- Reduce datacenter costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio.
- Increase availability of hardware and applications for improved business continuity.
- Gain operational flexibility.
- Improve manageability and security.
But let’s get specific to your servers. In addition to savings in hardware costs, virtualization software may also save you money on your energy bill. According to Energy Star, the energy costs for running a server for a year will soon exceed the price of acquiring it.
Server virtualization can be used to eliminate server sprawl.
While making more efficient use of server resources and improving server availability, server virtualization also improves disaster recovery, eases testing and development, and centralizes server administration. Automation, scalability, and visibility are all benefits of server virtualization.
ENS-Inc engineers are experts at server virtualization.
Our vast experience combined with our industry-leading expertise and certifications provide you with the best solutions to fit your business needs in conjunction with your current IT infrastructure. We can also help determine what type of server virtualization is right for you.
Reduce Your Administrative Burden with Server Virtualization
With server virtualization, you can reduce your administrator to server ratio. This means there is more time for daily server admin tasks or a single administrator can cover more servers. Deployment, management, and troubleshooting are also improved at varying levels depending on the specific software related to your specific needs. These benefits can include:
- Improved IT responsiveness through proactive management of your virtual environment with rapid provisioning and automated load balancing of virtual machine workloads.
- Centralized management allows administrator to organize, rapidly provision and configure the entire IT environment through a single interface. This also allows for thorough and consistent monitoring of all critical components like CPU, memory, storage, and networking.
- Operation automation providing task scheduling and alerting which improves responsiveness to business needs and can prioritize actions requiring the most urgent attention.
- Simplified methods for physical and virtual deployments.
- Consolidation of multiple workloads enabling more efficient and simple management of hardware resources.
- Analyze and remediate issues quickly with deep visibility into underlying infrastructure
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Improve the Efficiency and Reduce the Costs of Your Datacenter
Depending on the specific software related to your specific needs, datacenter efficiency and the costs of maintaining your datacenter can be greatly impacted with server virtualization:
- Higher levels of security
- Automated energy efficiency
- Secure access control
- Improved virtual networking performance
- Lower energy costs due to fewer physical servers and less cooling costs
- Faster server deployment
- Increase the scale of your server infrastructure without purchasing additional hardware
- Easier to reallocate hardware and plan for growth
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Navigating the Waters of Potential Pitfalls
Server virtualization has proven to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Before embarking on a migration to a virtualized infrastructure it is important to not only carefully analyze your current IT assets and resources alongside your business needs but you also need a well-designed plan that takes into account the diversity and impact of the varied virtualization software on the market.
Today’s IT systems are complex and often link multiple traditional systems potentially supplied by different software vendors.
To manage this level of complexity, the ENS-Inc team approaches your server virtualization using best practices and standard methodologies built from standard frameworks set forth by industry leaders such as the Project Management Institute (PMI). Our industry-leading expertise coupled with high-level vendor collaboration supports your business transformation, reduces costs, and eases management by providing a cohesive, business-driven virtualization strategy and design based on vendor specific combined best practices and experiences.
ENS-Inc Engineers, Developers, and Project Managers are highly trained, experienced, and certified in server virtualization and have worked extensively with industry-leading software.
ENS-Inc analyzes and evaluates each project so that its implementation will work effectively and efficiently in both the current and planned IT infrastructure. ENS-Inc develops and deploys your server virtualization solution and then also provides the onsite training and knowledge transfer to empower your success.
For more than ten years, ENS-Inc has established a reputation of trust with our customers by delivering proven reliable and scalable technology solutions. With each project we seek to meet or exceed customer expectations.
As we approach your server virtualization planning and design, you can be confident that your projects with be completed on time, on budget, and within scope.
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