With our efficient virtualisation solution, your business can benefit from a dramatic increase in the optimisation of existing resources and applications. Virtualising your x86 servers can increase the utilisation of the hardware from a typical 5-15% of system resource utilisation. This solution avoids the need for purchasing more physical servers which increase management time and require higher capital expenditure.
nVirtual
Are you building or expanding your virtual environment?
Virtualisation can reduce costs, improve application availability, and simplify IT management.
Getting started can be challenging, however. You need to have the appropriate software, network, server and storage configurations; but some marketplace solutions billed as “simple” may actually reduce availability and limit scalability—leaving you to figure out how to put it all together.
The Node4 virtualisation solution: we can help you achieve the right solution that is right for you, the freedom to you to choose a solution meeting your application and capacity needs. We can uniquely deliver a high-availability solution without complex external storage and without compromising on performance.
What do you get?
Quite simply an nVirtual solution is a complete virtualisation platform consisting of servers, storage, switches and software. Using VMware, EMC and Cisco technology, it comes pre-built and pre-configured giving you a simple yet powerful virtualisation platform.
Leveraging EMC, VMware and Cisco technology our nVirtual solutions are the perfect virtualisation platform for the small to midsize organisation. The solution can be installed on your site or for added resiliency and peace of mind it could be installed in one of our data centres where you can connect to it using a high bandwidth Ethernet connection. Benefits include integration and ease of use, reduced complexity, computing and storage efficiency.
There are 3 different versions of the nVirtual solution starting at an entry level which supports anything up to 25 virtual machines and scales up to a more high end solution supporting up to 100 virtual machines.
| iSCSI OptionSTORAGE: EMC CLARiiON AX4 SERVER & SWITCHING 2 x Cisco Catalyst 2960 2 x UCS C200 Servers (inc. 2 x CNA cards) VIRTUALISATION: VMware Essentials Plus SERVICES: One day on site installation 3 years support |
Fibre Channel OptionSTORAGE: EMC CLARiiON AX4 SERVER & SWITCHING 2 x MDS 9124 2 x UCS C200 Servers (inc. 2 x CNA cards) VIRTUALISATION: VMware Essentials Plus SERVICES: One day on site installation 3 years support |
There are also midsize and high level options available. Of course if you need something more bespoke we can work with you as well. To find out what is included in each nVirtual option please get in touch with your account manager today.
Please contact your account manager or sales@node4.co.uk for pricing details.
Features and Benefits
- Shared Resources
Benefit from shared virtual storage by running multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine. - Data Centre Centralised
With virtualised hosting as an option, your business can benefit from being centralised in one of our secure and conveniently located UK data centres. - Reduce Costs
By minimising the size of your physical infrastructure, your business can benefit from reduced costs and increased energy efficiency. - Fast Connectivity Options
We can provide Ethernet as a high speed connection to link both sites in speeds of 10Mb, 100Mb or 1Gb which can also be utilised for internet access.
Our virtualisation solution has many other benefits combining multiple elements of our portfolio to give you a complete end-to-end offering, including the option to integrate a high performance SAN.
Related Solutions
- Colocation
Compliment our virtualisation solution with colocation which involves moving your existing business servers into our secure and conveniently located data centres. - Managed Hosting
When colocating your own servers isn’t required, a fully managed dedicated server solution may be more suited to your business requirements, along with our virtualisation solution. - Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Compliment our virtualisation solution with a business continuity plan to protect data, contacts and emails. - Storage
Protect critical systems, data and information whilst benefiting from our virtualisation solution in our secure and resilient data centre facilities. - Security
Protect your hosted business servers from web traffic threats such as Malware, providing a greater level of convenience along with our virtualisation solution.