Server Virtualization

Thanks to our in-depth knowledge and expertise in both proprietary and open source virtualization technologies—including Citrix Xenserver and Microsoft HyperVisor—our Virtual Server consultants objectively assess and deploy the optimal solution to your unique needs.

We take a holistic view of an organization’s environment and support the entire virtualization technology lifecycle—from planning and assessments to design and assessment, along with ongoing management, training and support.

We have years of experience optimizing, managing, securing and supporting complex, mission-critical data-center environments for leading companies. Prosper-IT server virtualization consultants are perfectly suited to objectively assess, design, implement and support the right virtualization solution to meet your specific business goals and IT requirements.

As a leading server consolidation consulting firm, customers count on us for:

• Proven methodology and best practices
• Multi-vendor, multi-platform expertise across a wide range of data center systems, platforms
• Extensive experience working with enterprise customers with high-availability data center needs
• A focus on enabling the customer with a commitment to delivering the highest standard of service and support

When to use virtualization

Virtualization is the perfect solution for applications meant for small- to medium-scale usage. Your goal is to prevent CPU utilization from exceeding 50% during peak loads. Running multiple servers on a single physical server will elevate peak CPU utilization, but it will also optimize overall usage since the peaks and valleys of the virtual OS tend to cancel each other out.

If you have servers with extremely high storage or hardware I/O requirements, you might want to run them on bare metal—even if their CPU requirements can be met inside a virtual environment.

Disaster recovery benefits

As an added virtualization bonus, you get improved disaster-recovery capabilities, because the virtualized images can be used to instantly recover all your servers. Think about it: what would happen now if your legacy server died? Would your business even be capable of rebuilding and reconfiguring all of your servers from scratch?

With virtualization, you can recover that Active Directory and Exchange Server in less than an hour by rebuilding the virtual server from the virtual server image.

Not sure which virtualization solution to choose?

Currently, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Xenserver are the two leading server virtualization solutions—and the competition has heated up with Windows Server 2008 R2. Prosper-IT has experience in delivering both. As an unbiased third party, we’d be honored to learn more about your environment and guide you to the appropriate solution for your business. Contact us today for a quote.