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| THE HYPERVISOR |
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THE STORAGE ARRAY |
| The capabilities
of the hypervisor determine the success of your
server consolidation project - VMware vSphere provides
the most reliable, scalable, secure, and feature
rich platform that can consolidate 20 or more systems
onto a single server.
VMware vCenter provides centralised management
of vSphere clusters and is the foundation for
additional capabilities such as disaster recovery
automation and capacity management.
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The storage array
is the heart of any server virtualisation solution
and it must be sized correctly to provide the capacity
and performance required to ensure the success of
the project.
EMC storage arrays provide cost effective scalability,
and tight integration with vSphere including support
for the latest vStorage APIs for Array Integration
to maximise efficiency.
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| THE SERVER HARDWARE |
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HOST CONNECTIVITY |
| Servers that support
hardware-assisted CPU and Memory Management Unit
virtualisation will reduce the hypervisor overhead
significantly.
This in turn will reduce the number of servers
and vSphere licenses required, and enable virtualisation
of the most resource intensive applications.
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Today there are many
options for connecting servers to storage networks
- from cost effective GbE to high-performance Fibre
Channel and converged 10GbE networks.
SNS can help you choose the solution that gives
you the performance you need at the price that
is right.
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| 100% VIRTUALISATION |
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SNS SERVICES |
| The recent advances in the vSphere
hypervisor enable wire-speed storage and networking,
and when used with the latest CPUs make it possible
to virtualise even the largest x86 workloads, including
Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint, and Oracle.
Once all servers are virtualised they can all
benefit from the improvements in efficiency, availability,
disaster recovery and backup.
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Prior to virtualising your servers
SNS can help you measure your resource utilisation
to optimally determine:
- The number and configuration of vSphere hosts
- The storage array configuration to deliver
the required capacity and performance
- The optimal host connectivity method
Without this exercise it is very likely that
the hardware will either be over or under provisioned,
resulting in poor performance or excessive expenditure.
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