Windows Virtualisation with Sun and VMwareHave you got several years of Windows applications sitting on scores of older, underutilised servers? Want to know how to make the most of your data centre – both from a utilisation and an efficiency stand point? Sun and VMWare have had a strategic alliance for many years and have worked together to solve these issues. For example, local telecommunications provider, AAPT turned to Sun and VMware to virtualise its infrastructure in order to upgrade an aging server line-up and reduce carbon footprint. “We see virtualisation as a core component of our IT strategy,” said David Yuile, AAPT GM Networks and Technology. “We chose VMware and Sun because of their experience with virtualisation, where no other vendors could match our needs.” First step to virtualisation is consolidationVirtualisation goes hand in hand with consolidation. Without one or the other the full benefits cannot be realised. With many data centres reaching capacity and IT budgets shrinking, CIOs are asking IT departments to do more with less. Evaluating hardware and consolidating your Windows infrastructure prior to virtualisation can help you realise huge cost savings. Choosing new energy-efficient servers and a virtualisation technology like VMware you will be able to reduce power and cooling costs while boosting performance. And it is not just increased efficiency and utilisation that organisations are seeing. You will also be able to provision services more quickly. No longer is a new server needed every time you want to add an application to your IT environment. And all this can be done in the same or smaller footprint. Sun has a range of hardware to suit every organisation’s needs:
The benefits of virtualisationOnce you have consolidated older servers with years of Windows applications onto Sun’s hardware you can introduce virtualisation technology to renew your data centre. The benefits of virtualisation are numerous: fewer servers mean lower costs, more space, less power and cooling, and increased performance. Sun ANZ’s Chief Technologist, Angus MacDonald, says: “Businesses need to be aware that virtualisation doesn’t reduce the number of operating systems, or the number of programs, so the maintenance can still be high. “What it does do, however, is reduce the hardware. One of the biggest savers for businesses using virtualisation is the reduced real estate needed to house the servers. Add to that the reduction in power and cooling costs and you’re looking at considerable savings, as well as an environmentally friendly solution.” Desktop to Data Centre VirtualisationVirtualisation is no longer just the domain of the server world either or even just the data centre. Virtualisation has moved from servers to storage and to the desktop. Sun’s disk storage solutions are preloaded with innovative, integrated virtualisation. Disk virtualisation can improve flexibility, utilisation, ease of management and cost of storage. You can even virtualise storage from multiple vendors and control it via a single console. This allows you the ability to choose the hardware that suits your needs without being tied to a vendor. Virtualisation is also now being looked at as an effective way to manage desktops and updates centrally. This allows an organisation to avoid the high costs of traditional distributed desktops. With the applications and data hosted in the data centre and not on the desktop, virtualisation also adds an additional layer of security and protection. This doesn’t mean that adding new users is a time-consuming task either. They can be provisioned in minutes with the ability to access applications running on multiple platforms from a single device.
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