Virtualisation/ Consolidation

Virtualisation has become an integral tool in the data center. It is now an important factor in aiding clients in obtaining maximum value from their data centre through containing rising IT costs, managing all systems in a heterogeneous environment and ensuring systems are highly available. This Virtualisation Solution comprises of:

• High Availability
  
• Live Migration
  
• System Scheduler Functionality
  
• Maintenance Manager
  
• Image Management 
• Monitoring and Reporting

 LSD utilises the following Linux Enterprise Ready Solutions:

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers (RHEV)

• The RHEV product consists of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers which allows for management of guests and hosts, high availability, live migration, storage management, system and more. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Hypervisor which is based on KVM, can be deployed as a standalone hypervisor should this be required.

• Novell PlateSpin offers out of the box recon and evaluation tools which enable the users to evaluate their current datacenter and design a plan for future consolidation/virtualisation/DR plans. The PlateSpin Migrate tool allows you to migrate/consolidate/virtualise servers on the fly