Virtualization Consulting
When figuring out the "Right" virtualization direction - a "Good" roadmap helps.
As a VMware partner, Digital Controls provides virtualization consulting and professional services in the following areas:
The Challenge
As many organizations continue to see explosive growth in their computing needs putting greater demands on both IT infrastructure and IT organizations to deliver results while budgets continue to tighten in an ever-competitive economy.
IT organizations have responded by scaling out their infrastructure with low-cost, industry standard x86 servers, usually dedicating a single physical server for each of their applications. Meanwhile, processor speed and power continues to grow exponentially.
This has led to a new set of challenges
- 80% of servers are underutilized - running at 10-15% of capacity
- Server sprawl making server management difficult at best
- Data centers consume unnecessary HVAC capacity
System administrators end up spending time on break-fix, mundane provisioning activities, or working off-hours to maintain servers and applications.
The Solution
Infrastructure virtualization addresses all of these problems by transforming IT administration.
By running applications and operating systems in virtual machines, IT administrators can consolidate multiple workloads onto a smaller number of physical servers – thus simplifying management and provisioning.
In addition to central management and monitoring, virtual machines can be deployed as easily as copying a file. Deploying a new workload now takes minutes rather than the days or weeks it takes to requisition a physical server.
The crown jewel in this line up is automation. VMware Virtual Infrastructure can automatically manage the dynamic distribution of resources, assigning computer power to applications only when needed and to the extent needed (or specified by policies). This results in less time and less people focused on simple day-to-day management tasks.