SERVER VIRTUALIZATION

A virtual infrastructure lets you share your physical resources of multiple machines across your entire infrastructure. A virtual machine lets you share the resources of a single physical computer across multiple virtual machines for maximum efficiency. Resources are shared across multiple virtual machines and applications. 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.

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.

NACE can help you in planning and implementing virtualization solutions using Novell & VMware virtualization products.

Virtualization solutions from Vmware:

Virtualizing your IT infrastructure lets you reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization, and flexibility of your existing assets. Around the world, companies of every size benefit from VMware virtualization. Thousands of organizations - including all of the Fortune 100 - use VMware virtualization solutions.

An automated datacenter built on the production-proven VMware virtualization platform lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. VMware vSphere delivers resources, applications - even servers-when and where they are needed. VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware vSphere.

Run multiple operating systems on a single computer including Windows, Linux and more.
Let your Mac run Windows creating a virtual PC environment for all your Windows applications.
Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware while increasing your server to admin ratio
Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and performance
Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter
Improve enterprise desktop management & control with faster deployment of desktops and fewer support calls due to application conflicts

Virtualization solutions from Novell:

Virtualization and Workload Management from Novell allows you to reduce the manual effort and logistics involved in completing a site consolidation. We do this by simplifying and automating the planning and migration of servers and virtual machines over the network to the efficient consolidated data center location.

The PlateSpin® business-critical server consolidation technology is ideal for large and very large enterprises looking to migrate hundreds of Windows, Linux and UNIX, business-critical workloads into a VMware, Xen, or Microsoft virtual environment.

Virtualization from Novell gives you many benefits, including: