Server Virtualisation allows several operating systems to be run on a single physical computer. The adoption of virtualisation by businesses in the last few years has grown exponentially and with significant reductions in total cost of ownership, it’s often an easy decision to make for many companies.

Excellence IT are a Microsoft Virtualisation Partner which means we are experts in consolidating server infrastructure into easily managed, flexible, systems. We can design, deploy and provide consultation about virtualisation solutions.

By taking advantage of server virtualisation, consolidating the number of physical servers in your environment can provide the following benefits:

• Lower the number of physical servers - by using fewer servers, power consumption can be cut dramatically reducing your carbon footprint and also reducing hardware maintenance costs.

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery – Microsoft Hyper-V technology includes powerful business continuity and remote management features, such as live backup, quick migration tools and geographically dispersed clustering capabilities, helping to ensure minimal data loss and enabling businesses to maintain high uptime levels.

• By having each application within its own "virtual server" you can prevent one application from impacting another when making changes or upgrades.

• You can develop a standard virtual server build that can be easily duplicated which will speed up server deployment.

• You can deploy multiple operating system technologies on a single hardware platform (i.e. Windows Server 2003, Linux, Windows 2000, etc).

All sound too good to be true?  As with most technologies there are pitfalls to avoid as not all network infrastructures are suitable for virtualisation. Please contact Excellence IT for a formal review of your network for virtualisation.