ScaleAdvice Consulting Inc.

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ScaleAdvice offers wide range of IT services, and tailored business solutions. Find out more about Scalable Services from ScaleAdvice.

• Scalable Clouds
• Scalable Virtualization
• Scalable Storage
• Scalable HPC
• Scalable Migration
• Scalable Mobile Apps
• Scalable Unit Test Suites

Scalable Virtualization

With in-depth knowledge and expertise of both proprietary and open source virtualization technologies, including VMware, Xen and KVM, our Virtual Server consultants objectively assess and deploy the optimal solution to fit your unique needs. Our approach is to take a holistic view of an organization's environment and to support the entire virtualization technology life cycle, from planning and assessments to design and implementation as well as ongoing management, training and support.

Benefits :

• Lower number of physical servers - you can reduce hardware maintenance costs because of a lower number of physical servers.
• By implementing a server consolidation strategy, you can increase the space utilization efficiency in your data center.
• By having each application within its own "virtual server" you can prevent one application from impacting another application when upgrades or changes are made.
• You can develop a standard virtual server build that can be easily duplicated which will speed up server deployment.
• You can deploy multiple operating system technologies on a single hardware platform (i.e. Windows Server 2003, Linux, Windows 2000, etc).

Virtual Appliances

One of the many benefits of virtual servers is the ability to quickly and easily create new servers to host new applications. Rather than needing physical hardware to test a new piece of software a virtual machine can be rolled out in minutes and your business can start evaluating within the hour than within the week or month.

Physical to Virtual Migration

Physical-to-Virtual ("P2V") describes the process of decoupling and migrating a physical server's OS, applications, and data from a physical server to a virtual machine guest hosted on a virtualized platform.

When to Use Virtualization

Virtualization is the perfect solution for applications that are meant for small to medium-scale usage. You want to prevent CPU utilization from exceeding 50% during peak loads. Running several servers on a single physical server will elevate the peak CPU utilization but optimize overall usage since the peaks and valleys of the virtual operating systems will tend to cancel each other out. For servers with extremely high storage or hardware I/O requirements, you might want to run them on bare metal even if their CPU requirements can be met inside a Virtual environment.

Disaster Recovery Benefit

As an added bonus of virtualization, you get improved disaster recovery capabilities because the virtualized images can be used to instantly recover all your servers. Ask yourself what would happen now if your legacy server died. Would your business even be capable of rebuilding and reconfiguring all of your servers from scratch? With virtualization, you can recover that Active Directory and Exchange Server in less than an hour by rebuilding the virtual server from the virtual server image.

By taking advantage of virtualization you can easily improve the efficiency of your Data Center, as well as lower your cost of ownership.