| There are many reasons why 98% of the fortune | | | | containing the state of your server at the time of |
| 1000 businesses have deployed Vmware for server | | | | the snapshot. If your server fails you need only |
| virtualisation. It is the product we will seee more of in | | | | "copy" and "paste" your server from the most |
| businesses and will even one day make it to the | | | | recent snapshot and simply press "go". |
| consumer market. | | | | This is particularly helpful as all the undocumented |
| Without doubt, the main reason I see virtualisation | | | | server changes that happen over the months or |
| working for my customers is for business continuity. | | | | even years within an organisation are kept. You can |
| Disaster recovery is something all IT managers think | | | | be sure the server will run EXACTLY like it was |
| about but not too many actually implement even the | | | | before any downtime. Plus you can run the server on |
| minimum requirements. So with the obvious benefits | | | | any hardware platform as long as there are enough |
| of server consolidation, long term lower cost of | | | | resources and the server has a hypervisor layer |
| ownership through resource optimisation virtualisation | | | | installed (20 Mins on a new box). No drivers, No |
| provides a great platform for disaster recovery. | | | | downloads, No hassle. |
| It is all due to encapsulation. This means the virtual | | | | Virtualisation is not the future, it is here now. If you |
| servers sitting on your hardware can be encapsulated | | | | have even only one server now virtualisation can |
| as a snapshot. These snapshots are essentially a file | | | | provide you with an affordable DRP solution. |