VIRTUALISATION
Brennan’s Virtualisation Services can help your business significantly by reducing costs and increasing the efficiency and responsiveness of your IT operations by virtualising computing, storage and networking systems. As a VMware Enterprise Partner Brennan IT have a depth of skills and experience that can assist your organisation in undergoing virtualisation or upgrading your existing virtual environment.
The Process
Consolidation: The majority of servers in today’s data centres operate significantly below capacity. Virtualisation increases vhardware utilisation and reduces physical hardware requirements.
Management: Virtualisation decreases resource cost by simplifying and automating labour and resource intensive IT operations.
Development and Testing: Virtualisation improves responsiveness to development, testing and business needs with instant provisioning and acceleration of application development and deployment lifecycles.
Disaster Recovery: Virtualisation reduces the cost of hardware for Disaster Recovery and improves application availability.
What is Virtualisation
Virtualisation is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.
Virtualisation allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.
Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save, copy and provision a virtual machine. Full systems (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved, within seconds, from one physical server to another for zero-downtime maintenance and continuous workload consolidation.
Brennan’s Virtualisation Solution is delivered using the Industry’s leading Virtualisation solutions from a selection of the industries best vendors.
Virtualisation Assessment
Brennan Server virtualisation Assessment Services incorporate industry best practices and experience gained through years of successful enterprise virtual infrastructure implementations.
Brennan server virtualisation assessment services leverage a host of capacity planning and tools that enable the delivery of accelerated more accurate and benchmarked capacity planning and server consolidation assessments. In addition to technical analysis the assessment extends to incorporate an examination of current infrastructure management and deployment processes and procedures through a set of interviews and workshops. This information is used to facilitate process reengineering for efficiency gains in management of your future virtual infrastructure.
Planning
Assessment Planning Implementation Management
This phase incorporates the development of a deployment strategy in alignment with the specific requirements of the enterprise. Information gained through the consolidation assessment is used to develop what is commonly a staged approach to infrastructure virtualisation and consolidation.
The optimal deployment strategy for any enterprise will depend on many factors including application utilisation, hardware lifecycle, and business requirements.
Implementation
Our approach to the virtualisation and consolidation of your environment ensures you meet the challenges of server sprawl while building a better computing infrastructure that is ready to meet future computing needs. The best practice methodologies we use will deliver the benefits of consolidation without requiring significant changes to existing applications and configurations.
Using a staged implementation approach we help you achieve ‘quick wins’ through cost savings and immediately stem the need for continued purchasing of new physical server hardware.
As we systematically consolidate your infrastructure into a virtual environment we will work with the key people in your IT organisation to establish improved management processes in areas such as server provisioning, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, backup, and disaster recovery.
Management
Virtualisation Management Services are tailored to your specific requirements and range from monthly environment health checks through to a complete managed service that incorporates administration, maintenance, and monitoring 24/7. By utilising our Management Services you take advantage of a dedicated team of specialists and guarantee the ongoing health of your virtualised environment.
Why your Business should go Virtual
- Infrastructure Optimisation
- Reduce the number of servers and IT hardware
- Lower your IT costs by reducing real estate, power and cooling requirements
- Business continuity with secure back ups and virtual environments
- Operational Excellence
- Improved Desktop Manageability and Security
To find out more about our successful client partnerships and to understand how Brennan can assist you to assess, plan, implement and manage your Virtualisation Solutions.
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