Clients are now demanding further reductions in operation costs for server hardware and wish to go beyond the consolidation achieved by using Blade Server technology, by using Virtualisation. ControlCircle can design and implement a bespoke solution for a client that will either consolidate existing hosted server hardware or migrate office server hardware to a cost saving platform. ControlCircle use the market leading Virtualisation software from Hyper-V, Vmware and Citrix Xen, running on host servers especially tuned for hypervisor technology from IBM, Dell and HP on NetApp storage. Clients are then able to run virtual servers sharing pools of CPU, memory and network resources, encompassing legacy and leading edge systems that use Windows or ‘nix operating systems all running on the same clustered host servers.
ControlCircle will fully manage the patching and upgrading of the physical host and virtual guest operating system, the applications that run on the virtual servers, virtual networks all other components of the environment. Our skilled engineers will ensure your applications are always available to ensure your business 100% available and online.
Virtualisation
Virtualisation is a fairly new concept to many organisations. ControlCircle are here to help clients understand and see the benefits that virtulisation can potentially bring them. We can help with your business needs across many platforms and areas of virtualisation be it a thin client virtual desktop or vitalising your backend servers, or a file area network (FAN) virtualising your file storage.
ControlCircle can help you to specify areas of your business that can benefit from implementing a virtualised infrastructure, specify the solution, build it, and then manage this within a hosted environment. This service offering is completely bespoke and will be tailored to your business needs.
Even if you are not hosted with us we can offer you a disaster recovery option to virtualise your current live servers using a Physical to Virtual process and replicate these images to our NetApp SAN storage in our data centres, these server images can then be brought online when required as part of a disaster recovery solution. Combine this with the correct network connectivity and IP routing, you have your live environment up and running very quickly.
Server Virtualisation
Virtualisation, where multiple, software-based servers are logically stored on a single machine. The central tenets of virtualisation are adhered to within the server and desktop infrastructure, that is, ease of management and utilisation of the resources in a pooled environment. Whether the solution chosen is VMWare, Citrix Xen, or Microsoft Hyper-V the emphasis will be to make use of the wasted processing and memory within servers.
With the correct combination of server platform, CPU type, memory and storage, virtualisation can offer server consolidation, high availability, rapid recreation and patching of virtual and host servers plus performance gains and in certain configuration reduced overall power and rack space.
With virtualisation software the utilisation of the servers can be pushed well in the 80% region and servers can be brought online as they are required. This has a huge impact on the amount of power that is needed. Typical moves to a virtualised server infrastructure are seeing a 6 month ROI due to decreased power costs both from powering the server and the reduced need for environmental controls.
By using virtualisation ControlCircle can also provide disaster recovery solutions for clients. By using the latest Netapp storage and tools combined with market leading data replication technology for Exchange, Oracle and SQL Server, plus our Dark Fibre ring, virtual server farms can be easily be synchronised with their counterpart systems in disaster recovery locations within London or at remote sites. A client can have a bespoke recovery solution with various options of levels of data recovery and speed of availability and bandwidth speed to the recovery site and the virtual servers.
Call our Sales Team today - 080 107 6769 - to discuss virtualisation options.