Keltec Server Virtualisation Assessent Service

Virtualisation

Virtualisation has arrived – for desktops, servers, applications, networks and storage and with it has come better and less expensive utilisation of IT resources.

Implementing virtualisation is a journey. Addressing the consolidation and management issues at every level of the system architecture will be completed step by step. At every stage, the resources will be better utilised, the service levels will be maintained, flexibility will be built in with a simple management interface and there will be a reduction in complexity.

Benefits of Virtualisation include:–

  • Green benefits – less power consumption
  • Increased flexibility
  • Greater manageability
  • Greater security
  • Lower operating and total cost of ownership costs
  • Enhanced productivity
  • Simpler and more cost–effective DRP
  • Reduced system complexity

As specialists in the field of virtualisation, our consultants will sit down with you to find out your business needs and how your IT can better serve them. Only after the careful analysis and review exercise has been undertaken with you will we design and draw up a virtualisation route unique to your business needs.

Working with our global partners – Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, VMWare, Platespin and DataCore – we will implement your solution to our strict standards and methodologies. Your journey towards virtualisation does not end there. Once implemented to the highest industry standards, we will help you manage and support your new environment through our Support Services and ensure you maximise the benefits of your new investment.

Take a look at 5 levels of virtualisation we offer:

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Storage Virtualisation

It is all about the data – how it is stored, accessed and retrieved. As data has exploded, the solution has been to add more storage devices. However cheap the cost per gigabyte storage has become to buy and implement, managing the data in different systems has become a nightmare and usage wasteful. Virtualisation consolidates your storage resource pools into one or two systems, easily managed with data usage stored safely and prioritised automatically so that data used most frequently can be quickly accessed. It simplifies storage management and access practices, obviates data duplication, slashes power usage, facilitates disaster recovery plans, enhances ‘save everything’ compliancy regulations, and boosts your return on storage investments – past and future.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Your whole desktop population can be virtualised. Think about it, no more trying to manage and maintain 100s or 1000s of PCs spread throughout the organisation. With a virtualised Blade PC centralised environment, they would all be housed in a few enclosures no larger than the size of typical filing cabinet. Despite their new reduced footprint, they can deliver the same, if not more power to users, and through virtual storage, all your corporate data can be safely stored on a Storage Area Network and becomes part of the enterprise backup and restore strategies – much less of a management overhead and headache than when you run a distributed environment.

Application Virtualisation

Not everyone thinks of applications in the same context as the virtualisation of your physical IT assets, but it is now a proven method of managing and securing the applications which, like the servers and desktop systems they run on, have spread uncontrollably across the enterprise. With Application Virtualisation, instead of installing and managing applications for each user, they are streamed on–demand from a local or remote network. They are easily managed self–contained exe files with complete isolation from the operating system they run on.

Server Virtualisation

Our professional consultants will design, develop and implement either a totally new deployment for you or help you migrate from existing infrastructure. Your new server infrastructure is commissioned as virtual machines with redundant physical and virtual networking. These virtual machines can support most of the operating systems and applications in the business field. Where they are not suitable for a virtual environment, we will guide you though the alternatives.

Network Virtualisation

By its very nature the total virtual journey is network–based and dependent both remotely via a wide area network and on–site via the local area network. Maximum services must be a given, but, as with servers and storage, there is no point in adding more – in this case the pipeline – to meet demands. Rather use what you have better. That is what Network Virtualisation is about. Network Virtualisation optimises network bandwidth by providing a reliable means of accelerating interaction between the desktop, servers and storage devices by adding a simple device either end to manage data flow without the expense of adding extra bandwidth.

Keltec can deliver effective virtualisation through a set of proven stages:

Assessment: Keltec’s virtualisation analysis service assesses your current infrastructure using our virtualisation capacity planning tools and expert consultants. We provide a vendor-independent view on the resource use of your current infrastructure and advise you on exactly how virtual you need to be. We will use our virtualisation model tailored to your specific infrastructure needs.

Design workshop: Keltec runs design workshops alongside the analysis service and delivers a complete design architecture based on the industry best practices. The design is delivered as a comprehensive document and will include high–level design topology right down to the breakdown of infrastructure components, details and how it fits together to complete the solution.

Implementation project: Keltec will implement the designed solution using Prince2 project management standards and sign off each implementation stage with the client.

Manage and support: Keltec’s Managed and Support Services ensure the appropriate levels of support and management are implemented so that your new infrastructure continues to provide your organisation with a reliable and stable platform for business.

For more information please contact our Keltec Sales Team on
01344 306 700