As your business grows, the need to expand your IT infrastructure becomes essential.  A variety of new servers with a multitude of operating environments is often the common solution adopted to cope with the increasing demands of the business.  The resulting server sprawl is costly in terms of capital expenditure, ongoing maintenance, energy costs and staff required to operate, manage, and upgrade new servers.

Apex offers server consolidation solutions using virtualisation technologies for both IBM System i and System x, to help companies to amalgamate their disparate server infrastructures into a cost effective, simplified solution that delivers greater IT resource utilisation and flexibility.

If you are concerned about underutilisation, escalating management costs or vulnerability, Apex virtualisation solutions could help you achieve the scalable, secure and easily managed IT infrastructure you need.

Benefits of Virtualisation

Partitioning

• Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system
• Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture
• Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner

Isolation

• Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected
• Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections

Encapsulation

• Complete virtual machine environment is saved as a single file; easy to back up, move and copy
• Standardised virtualised hardware is presented to the application - guaranteeing compatibility

Apex offers server consolidation solutions using:

•  VMware for Virtualisation of Intel / Microsoft servers - (3mb)
•  IBM’s System I Logical Partitioning (LPAR) - (3mb)