Companies today are seeking ways to save on energy, cooling and other operations costs, to provide resilience and reduce downtime of servers and desktops, here below explains one way that gives you all those benefits, Infrastructure Virtualization.
Reduce number of Physical systems required to run work loads
Reduce Power and Cooling requirements of physical systems
Deploy and test applications without requiring new physical systems and replace typical installation procedures by using Fast Cloning of pre-built virtualized systems.
Run multiple operating systems on the same physical system all at once (Microsoft windows, Linux and others)
Provide resilience of systems resources and Recover from Failure in the least time
Systems Admins take back your weekends or late nights with Zero Downtime and Live movement of resources between physical systems, enable XenMotion.
Enable users to work from anywhere without exporting data off-site, because data remains in your datacenter.
Secure your data centrally within the datacenter
Provide High Availability also to work loads that did not benefit from clustering and HA in typical setups.
Reduce software license costs, where licenses are based on per physical server
IT departments can now execute maintenance on systems at anytime, now that they can live migrate user workloads without interrupting sessions.
What is Infrastructure Virtualization? read article here...
Thin clients are computing devices that function as an access device on a network. These solid-state devices connect over a network to a server where the bulk of the processing takes place. Thin clients have no hard drive, allowing for more secure storage of data and applications on the server. In fact, keystrokes, mouse events and screen images are all that is sent between the client and server. This makes the device much more secure than a standard desktop or notebook computer. With no hard drive, fan or other moving parts, thin clients have a much longer lifespan than standard computers and use significantly less power. Lower maintenance costs are another benefit as software application updates, virus scanning and patches can be executed on the server. Deployment costs are also reduced as thin clients can be remotely configured and do not need to be set up individually. Break-fix simply requires replacing the thin client.
A Datacenter Server solution, coupled with hardware redundancy and server virtualization for mission critical application delivery throughout the datacenter with near bare-metal performance. This is due to inclusion of Citrix XenServer v5, the leader in High performance virtualization. Citrix XenServer enables the datacenter to become more agile and dynamic in delivering applications/OS streams to desktops from a central, scalable delivery center/datacenter, with lower IT management costs and high availability and enterprise class security coupled with disaster recovery. It also provides support for a wide array of storage solutions, by leveraging the features provided by those storage vendors already in-house or procured.
To manage this system we again include numerous web and client/server management interface tools and the XenCenter management GUI that is available at no additional cost. This enables any size company to realize the costs saving benefits of Infrastructure Virtualization with the least overhead.
Using Intel and AMD processors with Virtualization technology, you customize by choosing CPU, memory and attached storage solutions or internal SATA/SAS drives.
Our enterprise and platinum editions of the NetSecurer Appliance is 24% more dense than Dell & HP Blade servers and 22% more dense that IBM Blade servers. Comparison: Dell and HP - 32 CPU in 10U rack; IBM 28 CPU in 9U Rack; NetSecurer 10 x 1U provides 20 single & dual CPU nodes, offering 20-40 CPUs in 10U and 640-1280 GB memory.
Standard
Default 4 virtual server per node. Standard license increase to unlimited
Enterprise
Default 4 virtual server per node. Enterprise license increase to unlimited with High Availability and Virtual machine automatic placement
Platinum
Default 4 virtual servers. Platinum license increase to unlimited, with Full Virtualization and bare-metal streaming or Virtual Machine
Quad/Dual Core processors
2 nodes single CPU total two (2) CPUs or Max. eight (4) Cores per node 8 total.
Full Redundancy should one node fails, the other takes over.
Supports XenMotion with enterprise license, standard license unlocks XenServer without XenMotion HA capabilities, however failure of one node can be manually restarted on second node.
Supports approx 8/16 Virtual Servers/Desktops with each having one 2-4 gigabyte memory.
Storage is based on 2 x Raid 1 configurations with maximum hard drive capacity of 1 TeraByte SATA. using external Shared storage this can be significantly expanded per VM.
Quad/Dual Core processors
2 nodes dual CPU total four (4) CPUs or Max. eight (8) Cores per node 16 total.
Full Redundancy should one node fails, the other takes over.
Supports XenMotion HA with enterprise license
Supports approx 16/32 Virtual Servers/Desktops with each having one 2-4 gigabyte memory.
Storage is based on 2 x Raid 1 configurations with maximum hard drive capacity of 1 TeraByte SATA. using external Shared storage this can be significantly expanded per VM.
Quad/Dual Core processors
1 node Quad CPUs, total four (4) CPUs or Max. sixteen (16) Cores per node
For full Redundancy should one node fails, for another to take over requires 2 x platinum appliances.
Supports XenMotion HA and baremetal provisoning with platinum license
Supports approx 32/64 Virtual Servers/Desktops with each having one 1-2 gigabyte memory.
Storage is based on Raid 1/10 configurations with maximum hard drive capacity of 1 TeraByte SATA. using external Shared storage this can be significantly expanded per VM.
Multi-Drive Rackmount servers from 2U - 8U with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
Simplified storage solutions with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. These units provides storage consolidation, which creates a reliable platform for network attached storage used in shared resource pool for NetSecurer Appliances. They are based on Windows Server 2003 R2 and offers superior price-to-performance ratio, enhanced manageability, and increased productivity.
Our solutions in reducing the cost of ownership for small business that finds implementing virtualization to be too expensive for their current budget to handle, is our Hosted NetSecurer Virtual Infrastructure NVI. The NVI is basically Virtual Servers and Desktops hosted within our Datacenter and supported by our staff, with all the benefits of an enterprise grade solution without the upfront cost to users/business.
