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