Data Center and Virtualization
Organizations are more and more dependent on the way information is treated, either it be its access or its storage.
Data Centers are vital on companies’ lives. Therefore, designing and implementing their physical infrastructures must obey a precise plan in way to keep fundamental principles: simplicity, flexibility, scalability, modularity and high availability.
Wires, physical safety, climatisation, racks, energy and infrastructure management are some of the fundamental requirements when designing a Data Center physical infrastructure. Its implementation must obey criteria of simplification and redundancy, minimizing human error.
IT One’s Virtualized Data Center solution allows the aggregation of all the infrastructure through an abstraction layer on the hardware infrastructure (servers, storage, backups, libraries), putting aside the physical restrictions and making virtualized resources available to be used and released when necessary, creating a more efficient solution for the most demanding needs.
Virtualization techniques and usage have evolved immensely in the last few years, a result of this concept’s advantages, which can be applied on several systems and components of every IT infrastructure:
- Server’s consolidation
With servers’ virtualization, operative systems such as Windows, Linux and Solaris can run as virtual machines in only one physical server, each one with access to the data processing available, improving this capacity from 10-15% to 80-90%.
- Network virtualization
Network virtualization is the complete reproduction of a physical network via software. Virtual networks offer the same resources and guarantees of a physical network and they still provide operational benefits and virtualization hardware’s independence. Applications are supported by the virtual network as if they were in a physical one.
- Desktop virtualization
It allows your company to create and storage your employees’ desktops in a centralized way and consequently making its management easier. It has benefits as the availability of new work stations in minutes, independence from the client hardware (workstation on desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.), simplified support and maintenance and an improvement on data safety as well.
- Applications’ virtualization
It gives users access to their applications everywhere, using any authorized device (fixed or mobile), without requiring installation. It assures great flexibility and constant access to corporate tools.
- Storage virtualization
Storage virtualization is the logic abstraction of physical storage systems and making those available to servers as a service. It represents great profit, by making the management less complex, with the same level of data integration, availability and performance.
Main benefits on adopting virtualization as the model of your Data Center
- Server consolidation
It allows reducing, in average, ten times the hardware acquisition, reducing operational costs up to 50% and energy costs in about 80%.
- Data Center created by software and managed by hardware
It allows making IT services available without the complexity of specialized hardware. Allowing automatized operations management, new levels of resource usage and IT team productivity are created.
- Business continuity
Virtualization using a platform that guarantees data protection and high availability, discard planned inactivity and minimizes non-planned inactivity, with benefits for the business operation and profit.
- Cloud-based unified management
Allows automatization on servers, desktops and applications’ supplies, making administration easier and maximizing operational efficiency.
- Disaster recovery
Simple mechanisms for virtualized applications and systems for disaster recovery, in a more accessible model, and with automatic recovery capacity.
