Virtualisation

The need for increased computing power has led many businesses to invest in multiple servers to support their multiple operating systems. This investment is vital for the business to grow, but the high capital expenditure, together with increasing, ongoing costs for power and space, means that growth is not as economical and easy as it should be.

 

Traditional Infrastructure
Company A has invested in 3 servers to support their applications.

  • Server 1 is dedicated to their website and uses a Linux operating system.
  • Server 2 is dedicated to their database and uses a Windows operating system.
  • Server 3 is dedicated to their applications and uses a Linux operating system.

It's likely that Company A’s servers are not using their full resource capability and investment is going to waste. Should Company A decide to add another server, they would incur an additional setup fee and more ongoing power, space and connectivity costs.

Managed Hypervisor

Virtualisation allows you to cost-effectively store multiple operating systems on one piece of hardware using the same power, space and connectivity.

Claranet’s Managed Hypervisor converts a single managed hardware server into multiple dedicated virtual servers, reducing your setup costs and ongoing power, space and connectivity charges.

With Managed Hypervisor, all applications share the same CPU, disk and memory, so each application takes the resources it needs and none of your capability is left unutilised. Should your business demand you to grow your website, database or applications, adding a new operating system is as simple as switching on a computer.

 

Virtualised Infrastructure
Company A has decided to switch from multiple servers to Claranet’s Managed Hypervisor.

 

Company A's applications are now on one piece of hardware, meaning their resources are fully optimised and power, space and connectivity costs are reduced.
 

The service includes:
Monitoring of the Managed Hypervisor and the Virtual Machines
A rapid response 24/7/365 should the Managed Hypervisor or a Virtual Machine fail
Critical patching of both the Managed Hypervisor and the Virtual Machines
A dedicated high specification Dell server, with all resources dedicated to only your applications
A guaranteed 1 hour hardware time to fix, with credits paid half-hourly should we fail
A guarantee of network connectivity up to 100%
Resilient Data Network - high speed, low latency and scalable
Purpose-built datacentres, with onsite 24/7/365 support

Complex Virtual Infrastructure

Claranet can design a dedicated virtual infrastructure to suit your business requirements for high availability, rapid provisioning or burstability.

If you would like some more information on virtualisation click here to speak to a member of our sales team.