New York Virtualization Experts
ActivSupport's New York virtualization experts consultants plan, deploy, support, troubleshoot, and are certified in a number of technologies including VM ware with VI3, Citrix with Xensource, Microsoft with Hyper-V, and Virtual Iron. ActivSupport's East Coast headquarters covers the greater New York area, including Manhattan (Upper East Side, Central Park, Park Avenue, SOHO, Harlem and the Financial District), Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Long Island.
Virtualization is a hot topic and buzz word these days but what is it ? ActivSupport New York virtualization experts discuss the state of virtualization applications.
Virtualization is the process of logically dividing hardware like a physical server into a platform where multiple virtual machines can run simultaneously. Since most servers actually run with very little CPU utilization and modern server hardware is so powerful, it has the capability of actually running a number of servers on a single physical box or host. The servers are converted into a set of files which reside on the hosts local storage or on shared storage.
By far one of the biggest advantages of virtualization is agility, and flexibility. The ability to quickly roll out servers, to move them to different hardware or to quickly recover them are some examples of this. The main areas where virtualization is an attractive solution include:
Server Consolidation. Since most servers, particularly newer ones have more processing capacity than is ever used, consolidating a number of physical servers onto a single host makes sense from a hardware cost perspective and from a Green Computing or energy and space perspective. One thing to be careful of or concerned about is the putting too many eggs in one basket. That one big server goes down and all the VM's and their applications go with it. For this reason, ActivSupport never recommends less than multiple hosts for a server consolidation project.
Backup and Disaster Recovery. This is another area that makes a lot of sense and that business is investing in. All of the backup vendors are incorporating virtualization into their products to one extent or another. ActivSupport's BDR solution named ActiVault uses virtualization as a Disaster Recovery solution. This is one area where a single host can be used as recovery server. Backup and DR technology has or is moving here to stay. These solutions provide a BIG gain in the time to recover from a disaster or catastrophic failure..
Development and Labs. Virtualization is an ideal solution for providing a "sand box" environment where computers, even entire networks can be duplicated, brought up, torn down, restored etc. in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the resources which would be required otherwise.
Desktop Deployment & Management. This is an area of virtualization that is pretty new and solutions are being developed and released at an increasing rate.Desktop virtualization is designed to give system administrators and end-users the best of both worlds: the ability to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving end users a full PC desktop experience.
For your virtualization network support or your next virtualization project needs, consider ActivSupport's expert Virtualization consulting team in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and call us for a no-cost, no obligation consultation by dialing 1-877-228-4863 toll free, or by using our online contact form.
