- Leveraging existing IT Assets like Servers, Storage and Network resources.
- Increasing the efficiency of IT Professionals through centralized simplified management.
- Improving Availability and Ensuring Business Continuity.
- Defeat Data Center sprawl and Infrastructure underutilization.
Why to Consolidate Servers and Storage?
Server Consolidation is an approach to the efficient usage of computer server resources in order to reduce the total number of servers or server locations that an organization requires.
We can help fast-track your IT virtualization project, identifying server consolidation prospects and opportunities for streamlining IT management within your existing physical IT infrastructure. Our experts will also identify key application interdependencies and provide implementation support for your migration to virtualization.
Storage Consolidation, also called storage convergence is a method of centralizing data storage among multiple servers. The objective is to facilitate data backup and archiving for all subscribers in an enterprise, while minimizing the time required to access and store data. Other desirable features include simplification of the storage infrastructure, centralized and efficient management, optimized resource utilization, and low operating cost.
Reduce IT Costs and Increase Control with Server Virtualization
Eliminate over-provisioning, increase server utilization and limit the environmental impact of IT by consolidating your server hardware with VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™, VMware's virtualization platform.
Server consolidation lets your organization
- Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50 percent and energy costs by as much as 80 percent, saving more than $3,000 per year for each virtualized server workload.
- Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by as much as 70 percent.
- Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in disaster recovery.
- Deliver IT services on demand, independent of hardware, operating systems, applications or infrastructure providers.
Reduce Server Costs with Server Virtualization
By consolidating your server hardware with vSphere with Operations Management, your organization can increase existing hardware utilization from as low as 5 percent to as much as 80 percent. VMware server virtualization can reduce hardware requirements by a 15:1 ratio, enabling you to reduce energy consumption without sacrificing reliability or service levels.
Centralize Management of Your Virtual Data Center
VMware lets you manage an entire virtual data center from a single point of control. With vSphere with Operations Management, you can monitor health, manage resources, and plan for the data center growth all from a unified dashboard.
Automate the Virtual Data Center
An automated virtual data center can simplify management while simultaneously delivering performance, scalability and availability levels that are impossible with physical infrastructure. The vSphere with Operations Management platform enables your organization to minimize downtime, enable dynamic, policy-based allocation of IT resources and eliminate repetitive configuration and maintenance tasks.
Deliver virtual or hosted desktops and applications through a single platform with VMware Horizon 6.
What Horizon 6 Does?
- Delivers Desktops and Applications through a Single Platform
Transform static desktops into secure, virtual workspaces that can be delivered on demand. Provision virtual or remoted desktops and applications through a single VDI platform to streamline management and easily entitle end users. - Supports a Rich, Adaptive User Experience
Provide a consistently great end user experience for knowledge workers, mobile workers and even 3D developers across devices, locations, media and connections. - Secures Data and Simplifies Compliance
Consolidate control, delivery and protection of end user compute resources with end-to-end management and automation. Leverage virtual networking to simply and dynamically segment access. - Dramatically Improves ROI
Dynamically allocate resources with virtual storage, virtual compute and virtual networking to simplify management and drive down costs. Reduce day-to-day operations costs with a single platform that allows you to extend virtualization from the data center to your devices. - Desktop and Applications Delivered Through a Single VDI Platform
Deliver virtual or remoted desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform to streamline management, easily entitle end users and quickly deliver the Windows resources end users need, at the speed they require. Provide full support for rich 3D graphics with VMware with NVIDIA GRID vGPU. Support printing, USB drives, smart cards, scanners and even HTML access to virtual desktops and hosted applications and desktops across more devices, including Google Chromebooks. - Linux and Windows Desktops
Upport more use cases across your organization including task workers, mobile workers and developers with easy access to Windows as well as Linux-based desktops for all flavors. - Unified Workspace with a Great User Experience
With Horizon 6, end users can access desktops and applications (including hosted RDS apps, packaged ThinApps, SaaS apps and even virtualized apps from Citrix) through a unified workspace with next-generation user experience across devices, locations, media and connections. - Workspace Environment Management
Consolidate, control, protect and automate delivery of user computing resources. Deliver and update apps in seconds with App Volumes. Easily monitor performance, set up proactive alerts and remediate infrastructure, desktops and applications to improve user experience and satisfaction.
GRID technology helps you protect your most valuable data, keeping it secure in the data center while providing just the right level of access to users. Keep your corporate intellectual property safe while also boosting productivity across the enterprise.
NVIDIA GRID™ technology offers the ability to offload graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU in virtualized environments. This gives IT managers the freedom to deliver true PC graphicsrich experiences to more virtual users for the first time.
- GPU Virtualization¹
NVIDIA® Kepler™ architecture allows hardware virtualization of the GPU for the first time ever. With NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™, multiple users can share a single GPU, improving user density while providing true PC performance and application compatibility. - Low-Latency Remote Display
NVIDIA's patented remote display technology greatly improves the user experience by reducing the lag that users feel when interacting with their virtual machine. With this technology, the virtual desktop screen is pushed directly to the remoting protocol. - H.264 Encoding²
The Kepler-powered GPU includes a high-performance H.264 engine capable of encoding simultaneous streams with superior quality. This provides a giant leap forward in cloud server efficiency by offloading the CPU from encoding functions and allowing these functions to scale with the number of GPUs in a server. - Software Partner Compatibility
The NVIDIA compatibility guarantee ensures that virtualized users experience the same state-ofthe-art graphics they have at their desk. NVIDIA works with over 100 leading companies to ensure this experience meets their stringent application certification standards. A list of these solutions can be found at www.nvidia.com/gridcertifications. - Maximum User Density
An optimized multi-GPU design helps to maximize user density. GRID K1 boards, which include four Kepler based GPUs and 16 GB of memory, are designed to host the maximum number of concurrent users. GRID K2 boards, which include two higher-end Kepler GPUs and 8 GB of memory, deliver maximum density for users of graphics-intensive applications. - 24/7 Reliability
GRID boards are designed, built, and tested by NVIDIA for 24/7 operation. Working closely with leading server vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and SuperMicro ensures that GRID cards perform optimally and reliably for the life of the system.
