Virtualisation
The Bunker’s Virtualisation Offering
Security and High Availability are the major drivers for almost all critical IT Application Hosting Services; The Bunker is in an unrivalled position to support your business in delivering both.
Virtualisation and consolidation of IT infrastructure is being heralded as the future model by which IT will support high-performance organisations. This is principally for the following reasons:
- Virtualisation offers a flexible and efficient way of delivering IT processing power and applications at exactly the time and place needed, while minimising overcapacity and redundancy.
- With a virtualisation layer in place, organisations can share their computing capacity across all business systems, leading to an overall reduction in redundant Data Centre capacity and an increased use of base assets.
Virtualised Dedicated Servers allow businesses at all levels to leverage the benefits of server Virtualisation without the need for significant upfront expenditure on Server, SAN storage, Network and Security devices. Virtualised environments can be complex to manage and require a significant level of expertise and certification. By decoupling the entire software environment from its underlying hardware infrastructure, virtualisation enables the aggregation of multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks into shared pools of resources that can be delivered dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed.
The Bunker utilise either Open Source, VMware ESX Server or Microsoft Hyper-V platform to transform or “virtualise” the hardware resources of an x86-based server (including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller) to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a “real” computer.
The Benefits of virtualisation are as follows:
- Reduced cost: Reduced licensing costs, reduced hardware costs and only pay for the instances you use
- Scalability: Superior levels of agility, performance, scalability, and business continuity, by deploying Fast Virtual instances provisioning
- Improved capacity utilisation: Apply the power where it is needed.
- Consolidation of IT Infrastructure: Migrate from Physical to Virtual to benefit from reduced cost and increased flexibility – and migrate without pain.
- Security: Dedicated virtual servers provide greater peace of mind if you are concerned about the security compromises of multi tenanted systems or VPS.
