2. Why Server Virtualisation? Reduce costs by consolidating hardware and increasing server utilisation Increase utilisation from 10-15% to 80% Reduce H/W requirements at least 10:1 Reduce H/W and operating costs Improve infrastructure management Accelerate provisioning time Centrally manage the virtual infrastructure Automate infrastructure management Live virtual machine migration to avoid planned downtime Allocated resources with automatic load balancing
3. Why Server Virtualisation in the Cloud? Create private cloud Enable server access from anywhere Introduce resilient data centre environment Benefit from physical server resilience Benefit from clustered storage resilience Increased flexibility & higher responsiveness Improved availability and SLA Remain data compliant
4. Why InTechnology? Storage virtualisation since 2002 Network virtualisation since 2003 Voice virtualisation since 2006 Server virtualisation since 2008 Proven experience with managing consolidated infrastructures Capacity and performance management Seamless service upgrades
5. Why InTechnology’s Virtual Server Hosting? Our virtual servers are based on VMware 84% of all virtualised applications in the world run on VMware (Gartner, 2009) In 2009 cloud computing was listed as 14th priority by CIOs whereas in 2010 it’s 2nd The 1st CIO priority is virtualisation The storage underpinning the virtual servers is NetApp and EMC Best of breed technologies Enterprise – class environment
6. Virtual Server Hosting – Requirements The Virtual Server Hosting service meets these requirements: Consolidate servers and storage Virtualise infrastructure in the cloud Flexible provision of server resources Improve server & application availability Reduce carbon footprint Reduce costs
7. Virtual Server Hosting – Service Overview Virtual machines run on physical servers located in an InTechnology data centre The virtualisation software abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines Delivering greater hardware utilisation and flexibility, performance and scalability Access virtual servers and storage on a pay-as-you-go basis Use InTechnology provided OS templates such as MS Windows or Red Hat Linux OS or upload your own templates
8. Virtual Server Hosting Features Delivers server and storage capacity that scales seamlessly with demands Flexible resources to meet fluctuating business demands, but on pay-as-you allocate basis Access to capacity as well as performance storage to meet the resource requirement of any application Scalable and flexible resources on demand High availability High performance
9. Virtual Server Hosting Benefits No need for investment in server, storage or resources Improves server and application availability Predictable and consistent performance Reduces operational costs (people, power and processes) Provides a long-term solution, not a short-term fix Secures business continuity and disaster recovery Reduces carbon footprint
10. When to use the Virtual Server Hosting Service If you want to centralise any applications– Flexible servers combining capacity storage with performance storage to cater for application specific requirements For short-term IT projects –when no additional capital funding is available. To cater for peak demands - short-term allocation of additional computing power and storage. For DR tests or real DRs – no need to procure and maintain expensive stand-by servers and storage. To assists your research & developmentneeds– Allocate and easily decommission servers for any R&D requirements.
History:Storage virtualisation underpins our backup, archive, email, server virtualisation, OCS, etc servicesNetwork virtualisation underpins all of our servicesWhat does this mean:Experience on capacity management and planned maintenanceDue to the service provider scale we are