Server Virtualisation essentially lets one computer do the job of multiple computers, by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments. Virtual servers and virtual desktops let you host multiple operating systems and multiple applications locally and in remote locations, freeing you from physical and geographical limitations. In addition to energy savings and lower capital expenses due to more efficient use of your hardware resources, you get high availability of resources, better desktop management, increased security, and improved disaster recovery processes when you build a virtual infrastructure.

Storage Virtualisation helps achieve location independence of scattered pools of storage. Storage Virtualisation presents you with logical data storage space whilst handling the mapping of storage volumes to actual physical locations.

Benefits of Storage Virtualisation to you:

• Thin Provisioning to maximize storage utilization
• Non-disruptive data migration
• Moving data off an over-utilised storage device.
• More efficient method of managing tiered storage
• Moving data off older end of life storage devices.
• A cost efficient method for disaster recovery.
• Interface agnostic, you can use your Fibre or Ethernet connectivity, fibre,FCoE, or iSCSI Storage.
• Centralise internal server storage as a pool of data.
• Move data between over utilised storage servers to under utilised storage servers
• Integration with VMware