Virtualization / VMware
Does Your Company Suffer From:
Underutilized Servers
Data Center Limitations
High Storage Costs
Too Many Servers
Staff Inefficiencies
essextec Expertise
Server virtualization is the proven way to maximize the return on your IT infrastructure investments by consolidating workloads from many underutilized servers onto fewer, larger systems. As a result of this consolidation effort, significant operational benefi ts and cost savings are achieved. PowerVM and VMware are two technologies that deliver industry-leading virtualization on IBM POWER processor-based systems and x86-based servers/blades. IBM Power Systems servers and x86 servers coupled with PowerVM and VMware technologies are designed to help you consolidate and simplify your IT environment. Key capabilities include:
- Improved server utilization and sharing I/O resources to reduce total cost of ownership
- Improved business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically re-allocating resources to applications as needed — to better match changing business cycles or handle unexpected surge in demand
- Simplified IT infrastructure management by making workloads independent of hardware resources, thereby enabling clients to make business-driven policies to deliver resources based on time, cost and service-level requirements
- Rapidly deployed new servers
- Dramatically improved business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities You can employ virtualization in many ways to achieve improvements in effi ciency and flexibility. Please let our certifi ed virtualization experts meet with you to review your environment and assist your virtualization needs.
Case Study
Client: Specialty retailer of value-priced clothing and accessories for children
Challenge / Problem / Requirements: The client faced a multitude of older, underutilized System p servers and had limited data center space, power, and cooling capabilities.
Test / Benchmark: IBM certified system engineers from essextec gathered server performance and utilization metrics during peak operational times.
Solution / Implementation: essextec system engineers consolidated several systems with 53 total cores to a single IBM System p590 server with 33 LPARs utilizing 18 cores.
Benefits: The solution implemented by essextec provided the client with a highly flexible server platform that dynamically changed to accommodate changing workloads. Additional benefits of our solution included: reduced floor space, power, and cooling needs; increased server utilization and flexibility; and dramatic reduction in the amount of network and fiber connections needed to maintain this environment.
The Solution
Industry leading virtualization solutions include PowerVM for System p servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure Solutions for the x86 servers.
Our VMware certified professionals can provide consolidation assessment services for VMware solutions by employing the VMware Capacity Planning tool to analyze your environment.
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