The benefits of virtualisation as a way to consolidate and contain your servers are widely discussed but knowing where to start with the vast array of products can be daunting. Charterhouse enables you to quickly realise the benefits and rapidly progress down the road to a full Virtual Infrastructure (VI) with its 'VI in a box' solutions described below.
Typical server consolidation and containment benefits
'VI Starter Kit in a box'
Production class performance - High performance with features like VSMP and the high performance VMware file system, VMFS
Easy to deploy - Can be up and running with virtual machines in a matter of minutes, making it the simplest on ramp to production virtualisation
Cost effective - cost effective to implement and straight forward to upgrade to a full VMware Infrastructure solution l
Flexible - integrates with existing storage
'VI a box'
Reduce planned and unplanned downtime - No disruption to service during planned maintenance. No weekend or evening work required for hardware maintenance
Automates resource management - with high availability and application mobility for the entire infrastructure
Large and more complex infrastructure
Decreasing manageability
Reduced efficiency caused by server sprawl
Solutions
Charterhouse's 'Starter kit in a box' enables
a simple and cost-effective introduction to you first virtual
environment. 'VI in a box' takes this one
step further. The benefits of both solutions are:
Provision servers and deploy software more efficiently - Decrease the time to deploy applications on a new server from 4-6 weeks to 15-30 minutes
Virtualise servers, storage and networks to transform IT infrastructure into an automated, always-on computer "utility plant"
Simplifies data centre management through central management tools and simplified provisioning
Improve IT staff efficiency by 30 - 50%
Run multiple production workloads on fewer servers; reduce server sprawl
Reduce hardware, power, cooling, space costs by 50% Increase server utilisation from 5-15% to 60-80%
Reduce TCO while helping your company reduce its carbon footprint
