Virtual Iron
Your company may have multiple servers and large amounts of storage capacity, but if they are independent from each other, then you may not be using them efficiently.
Is your IT helping or hindering your business to grow?
Typically new servers and storage are bought on an ad-hoc basis as your business grows. This unplanned growth leads to an infrastructure that is costly to run, maintain and change. It also limits your business from growing as it should. Virtual Iron software allows you to utilise your existing hardware better, maximising the efficiency of your current systems by creating compartmental areas on your server to run different environments - thus consolidating on one server which before could only be achieved on multiple boxes.
Access the online demo for Virtual Iron here
Virtual Iron is also available as a free download for a 30 day trial. Contact us for more details.
Maximise your Capital Budget
Virtual Iron will enable you to:
- use the same budget across more projects, further enhancing their value proposition
- create an efficient infrastructure that benefits today’s equipment, current and planned projects
- embrace future business change, rather than cope with it
Reduce your Operation Budget
Virtual Iron allows you to:
- free up your existing resources and budgets for other uses, such as Disaster Recovery
- use IT equipment more efficiently, enhancing its value, life and reducing costs
- allow staff to be more pro-active by using more efficient systems management
- reduce racking, flooring, power and air-conditioning requirements, reducing costs
Virtualisation – What’s that?
Virtualisation brings three key concepts to how hardware is thought about and used.
- Partitioning
Today’s server and storage hardware is expensive and powerful. Why use it in isolation when sharing it makes more sense? Partitioning allows it to become a resource pool, rather than a limitation. Multiple operating systems and applications can now share the same hardware. - Isolation
Partitions run in their own secure space. An application or operating system failure does not affect anyone else. Likewise storage is also secured; it’s available only to the owning partition. - Standardisation
Consistent, standard view of hardware and storage functionality is available to all. Server virtualisation ensures operating system and application compatibility, even for legacy systems not normally compatible with today’s hardware.
Storage virtualisation ensures intelligent services such as RAID, snap shots, disk clones thin and dynamic provisioning and replication are available to every connected host.
Consolidation with virtualisation allows you to do more, with less.
- Why buy new hardware, when you can more use of what you have today.
- Application priorities changed? Then either reconfigure the resources the partition can use (extra memory, more processors, etc) or move your partition to a more suitable physical server.
- Need an extra system – create a new partition.
- System running out of storage space? Reallocate it from the free storage pool.
Contact Storage Partners to discuss how Virtual Iron could benefit your company.