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Servers & Virtualisation
The machines the business actually computes on, physical and virtual, deployed and organised so each workload has the capacity it needs and IT has one place to manage them.
What it is
Fewer boxes, more headroom, one place to look.
The machines the business actually computes on, physical and virtual, deployed and organised so each workload has the capacity it needs and IT has one place to manage them.
Virtualisation is usually the heart of it: several servers’ worth of workloads consolidated onto properly sized hosts, each isolated, each recoverable, none tied to one ageing box.
In one delivered engagement, a UAE group’s environment was rebuilt on virtualisation: terminal server and remote desktop carrying a distributed team, with application and backup workloads consolidated on the same hosts.
When a business needs it
The hardware sets the ceiling.
- Workloads sit on ageing machines nobody dares restart
- Every new system means buying another server
- One hardware failure would take several systems down with it
- Test and production share a machine because there was nowhere else
What we deliver
- 01Workloads mapped: what runs where, what it needs, what depends on it
- 02Deployment of virtualisation hosts sized for the real workload
- 03Consolidation and migration of existing workloads onto them
- 04Documentation of the resulting environment at handover
How it connects
Every system in the business lives on these machines.
- Business systems drawing on shared capacity rather than a dedicated box each
- Backup taken at the virtualisation layer, one method for every workload
- Identity and access controlling who reaches which machine
- Monitoring under a support agreement watching hosts, not just guests
Servers & Virtualisation questions
What does virtualisation actually buy us?
Fewer boxes, more headroom and one place to look: dedicated virtual machines for core services on consolidated hardware, easier to back up, monitor and grow.
Consolidate the boxes before they multiply again.
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