How does it work?

The traditional “one workload, one box” approach to server provisioning inevitably leads to over-provisioning and underutilisation of server hardware assets. A large number of organisations typically provision at least one server for every application or service they deliver, yet most of these servers only operate at about 5-15% of their total load capacity.

Meanwhile, the costs associated with power, cooling, network infrastructure, storage infrastructure, administrative overhead and real estate can skyrocket as the data centre expands. The result is server sprawl: a situation in which servers take up more space and consume more resources than their workloads can justify.

By introducing a virtualised environment, your organization can significantly reduce the amount of IT hardware. Each instance of VMware ESX Server can support more than 100 virtual machines, and the vast majority of our customers are able to run as many as 10 or more applications on a single piece of hardware.

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) continuously balances computing capacity in resource pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not possible with physical infrastructure.

VMware High Availability (HA) provides pervasive, cost-effective failover protection within your virtualised IT environment enabling you to survive a server failure or take hardware offline for maintenance with no interruption to your business.