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We support current virtual setups as well as help companies migrate to a secure virtual infrastructure saving you money.
Supported Virtualization Options
What are the benefits to virtualizing my servers?
Virtualizing servers can lead to cost savings, improved efficiency, increased flexibility, simplified management, and enhanced disaster recovery capabilities.
Resource Optimization: Virtualization allows you to run multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical server, effectively consolidating your server infrastructure. This optimizes resource utilization by dynamically allocating CPU, memory, storage, and network resources among VMs based on demand. It reduces hardware and energy costs by maximizing the utilization of existing servers.
Cost Savings: Virtualization can lead to significant cost savings. By consolidating servers, you reduce hardware expenses, data center space requirements, power consumption, and cooling costs. Additionally, virtualization enables better management of resources, reducing the need for additional hardware upgrades.
Improved Efficiency and Flexibility: Virtualization provides the ability to create, deploy, and manage VMs quickly and easily. It offers flexibility in allocating resources to different VMs based on their requirements. This agility allows for faster provisioning and deployment of new servers, enabling rapid scalability and improved responsiveness to changing business needs.
Enhanced Disaster Recovery: Virtualization simplifies the process of backing up and restoring VMs. Snapshots and VM replication capabilities enable efficient disaster recovery, reducing downtime and minimizing data loss. VMs can be quickly migrated between physical servers to facilitate maintenance or mitigate failures.
Increased Hardware Utilization: Traditional physical servers often run at low utilization levels, resulting in wasted resources. Virtualization allows you to leverage the full capacity of your hardware by running multiple VMs simultaneously, improving overall hardware utilization.
Simplified Management: Virtualization platforms provide centralized management interfaces, allowing Olmtek to efficiently control and monitor the entire virtualized infrastructure from a single console. Tasks such as provisioning, monitoring, and resource allocation can be automated, reducing administrative overhead and simplifying server management.
Testing and Development: Virtualization offers an ideal environment for testing new software applications or updates without impacting production systems. VM snapshots can be used to create a stable testing environment and roll back changes if necessary.
Legacy System Support: Virtualization enables the consolidation of legacy applications and systems onto modern hardware, extending their lifespan and reducing maintenance costs. Virtual machines can run older operating systems and software that may not be compatible with newer physical hardware.
Green IT: By reducing the number of physical servers, virtualization helps conserve energy, lower carbon emissions, and contribute to environmentally friendly IT practices.