What is Virtualization?

Everyone is talking about virtualization these days and with good reason. No matter how large or small your environment, adopting a virtual infrastructure enables organizations to remain responsive to business needs while controlling costs. Through VMware technology ISG can provide you with solutions that address the challenges of managing your infrastructure.

Virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware, and the software that runs on it-- allowing your business to obtain greater IT resource utilization and flexibility. Virtual infrastructure enables businesses to lower IT cost through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Managing virtual infrastructure enables IT to connect resources to business needs quickly and consistently.

Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.

Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save, copy and provision a virtual machine. Full systems (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved, within seconds, from one physical server to another for zero-downtime maintenance and continuous workload consolidation. To read more download the PDF or click here to learn more.

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