Server Virtualization Delivers Higher Utilization and Performance

Until recently, high-performance IT environments relied on dedicated physical servers and networking equipment, with headroom designed to accomodate peak demand periods. A dedicated environment provides lower IT infrastructure utilization with higher administrative, backup, and security costs than an Ntakt7 virtualization solution. Virtualization consolidates servers and networking infrastructure by converting single function IT assets into a dynamically allocatable pool of IT resources.

Virtualization enables you to run multiple individual virtualized servers on a single physical server, with full hardware and software compatibility. Savings from consolidating IT infrastructure can be realized immediately, with secondary savings continuing to accrue over time. Virtual solutions reduce rackspace, power usage, and cooling requirements, security and administration overhead, and other related costs.

Capacity and Individual Server Performance Dynamically Scales Up or Down

Virtualization management software enables dynamic configuration of the performance of each virtual server to match workload. While the demand on each virtual server ebbs and flows, the physical server remains highly utilized to deliver cost savings compared to a dedicated physical server environment.

The entire state of a server is encapsulated and stored to disk for fast, reliable, and repeatable system recovery. Policy-based automation quickly creates additional virtual server instances to scale capacity to meet demand. With software and hardware leveraging the power of virtualization, companies can turn their data center assets into a pool of allocatable resources. New virtualization management software technology provides intuitive interfaces to ensure complexity and sprawl do not merely shift from the physical to the virtual world.

You can cut the delays inherent in loading system software or trying to restore from tape, a newly provisioned virtual server immediately resumes operating from the point at which it was archived. Virtualization with replication to disk provides a reliable, predictable process for system and data backup, archiving and restoration.

Ntakt7 Provides Planning, Design and Implementation Services

Ntakt7 provides consulting for all stages of IT infrastructure and server consolidation projects. Whether you are looking for advice during planning, assistance with network design and resource capacity questions, or full-service implementation, contact us for a free consultation.