What is Virtual Infrastructure?

Virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware, and the software that runs on it. Think of virtualization as a comprehensive method of resource management. Virtual infrastructure simplifies IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. In a virtual infrastructure, users see resources as if they were dedicated to them.

Why consider a virtual infrastructure?

VMware's virtual infrastructure architecture enables business to lower IT cost through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Managing a virtual infrastructure allows IT to link resources to business needs quickly. With virtual infrastructure, IT organizations can provision new services and change the amount of resources dedicated to any service. Your data center can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power.

Adopting virtual infrastructure lets IT be responsive to business needs:

60-80% utilization rates for Intel servers up from today's 5-15%
Provisioning times for new applications measured in tens of seconds, not days
Response times for change requests measured in minutes
Zero-downtime hardware maintenance without waiting for maintenance windows helps enterprises lower costs, deliver better productivity, and improve speed of response to business units.

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Reduce Costs

Fewer servers means lower capital expenditure
Easier to separate the strategic IT investments from the commodity IT functions
You don't pay for excess capacity

Deliver IT services that are more productive

Leverages technologies you are already investing in: SAN, PVN’s, VLAN’s
Provides lower-cost platform options
Lowers risk and increases responsiveness

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Respond faster to business demand

Integration with partners and customers is easier
Expansion or M&A activities can happen faster
Resources can be deployed or moved quickly to the business units that need them

Virtual Server Grid
While many organizations are making their first move into virtualization, we are already working on the next generation of virtual server infrastructure. If your IT group is wondering how to create and manage thousands of virtual servers, or perhaps even provide virtual computing as a service offering to your existing clients, then the our Virtual Server Grid is your next step.

Large Virtual Server Implementations
In order to provide and manage an infrastructure capable of supporting large numbers (over 1000) of virtual machines, some important factors must be considered:

Provisioning
Billing
Networking
MAC’s (Moves, Adds, and Changes)

The Capris Virtual Server Grid addresses all of these important factors and provides a service wrapper that makes large-scale virtual server implementations a reality. With a front-end provisioning interface, systems can be ordered and delivered to end-users in less than 5 minutes. The system automatically monitors resource utilization by all virtual servers and converts the data into billing vectors. Network switch virtualization of VLAN connections allows systems to move across the entire farm of Intel Servers independent of dedicated physical networks. All of these features combine to create an environment where MAC’s are automatically administered and operator intervention is effectively eliminated.

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