Virtualisation
Virtualisation comes of age
With the launch of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, server virtualisation – that much-heralded technology - has finally come of age. What has long been promised is now a practical, usable reality: the effective partitioning of a single physical server into multiple virtual servers.
With Windows Server Hyper-V, Perceptive Online can now consolidate the workloads of a number of under-utilised physical servers onto a smaller number of much better utilised machines. Several virtual machines, securely separated from one another, can be run on the same machine. A single machine can also run virtual machines using current and legacy versions of various different operating systems.
Key amongst the improvements delivered by Windows Server Hyper-V are powerful and effective management tools for individual virtual servers, individual physical servers and across many physical servers. This has been an area of serious weakness in previous server virtualisation tool kits.
As Perceptive Online deploys Windows Server Hyper-V across its servers, a broad range of benefits will result:
- Data centre space, power and cost savings, allowing us to invest more heavily in our services and support
- Swifter deployment of new services
- Quicker and easier update installations, reducing downtime
- Improved storage and processor utilisation
- Simplified security management
- Accelerated backups
- Management time released allowing improved customer focus
These benefits will allow us to deliver new services, improve our existing ones, control prices in a time of general inflation, and deliver improved total cost of ownership to all our customers.
You can also read about Fuelsoft Ltd, a company enjoying the benefits of server virtualisation. For a technical overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, visit the Microsoft TechNet page.