e-Zest is Professional Level Partner of VMware and has a dedicated VMware competency center. VMWare is the market leader in infrastructure virtualization and according to one of the Gartner's researches, its at least 6 years ahead of its competitors in terms of technology innovations. e-Zest has gained extensive experience in implementing the infrastructure virtualization using VMware vSphere.
vSphere is amazing innovation from VMware. Its worth spending few minutes understanding its key features and benefits.
VMware vSphere, the industry’s first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services, using internal and external resources, securely and with low risk.
VMware vSphere infrastructure services transform discrete hardware resources into a shared mainframe-like computing platform that is incredibly resilient and capable of running the most demanding applications with nearnative performance.
Few of the the Key Features of VMware vSphere:
- Bare-metal architecture: VMware ESX and ESXi insert a robust virtualization layer directly on the server hardware for near-native virtual machine performance, reliability and scalability.
- Small footprint: VMware ESXi is a compact, 70 MB form factor of the production proven VMware ESX hypervisor. It is a fraction of the size of a general purpose operating system for unparalleled security and reliability.
- Server integration: VMware ESXi is available integrated into servers from leading OEM vendors for a simplified boot and deployment experience.
- CPU virtualization: Run many operating systems and applications encapsulated inside virtual machines on a single physical server for higher utilization, without risking critical processes being starved of compute or memory resources. VMware ESX/ESXi use intelligent process scheduling and load balancing across available processors to manage the execution of virtual machine processing
- Network virtualization: Network virtual machines like physical machines. Build complex networks within a single VMware ESX/ESXi or across multiple installations of VMware ESX/ESXi for production deployments or development and testing purposes.
- Flexible virtual switches: Create a virtual network within a VMware ESX/ESXi host with virtual switches that connect virtual machines within the same host as well as the outside physical network. Virtual switches can be created with up to 2040 ports, and every host can be configured with up to 248 switches.
- Storage virtualization: Abstract the complexity of storage subsystems while centrally maintaining virtual machine file storage for greater flexibility and manageability.
- VMotion: Live migrate running virtual machines from one server to another with no disruption or downtime.
- Storage VMotion: Live migrate running virtual machines from one storage location to another with no disruption or downtime.
- High Availability: Protect against physical machine failures through low cost, easy to setup VMware HA. VMware HA automatically detects physical machine failure and restarts virtual machines on other physical machines in a shared storage environment.
- Scalability and extensibility: Manage upto 300 hosts and 3000 virtual machines with vCenter Server 4.0 and Link many vCenter Servers in your environment with vCenter Server Linked Mode to manage upto 10,000 virtual machines from a single console.
These are few of the key features which VMWare vSphere 4.1 offers. Contact us for a free demo/discussion wherein we can explain you in details the advantages of infrastructure virtualization using VMWare vSphere 4.1.
Author: Satish Agrawal is VP-Cloud Computing Practice at e-Zest Solutions Ltd. (www.e-zest.net) and mentor for Cloud Computing Professionals in and around Pune. His mission is to build core competencies at e-Zest in the domain of Cloud Computing for enterprises and ISVs and deliver best values. e-Zest's Cloud Computing Services provide complete cloud computing solutions from assessment to design to deployment to operation and adaption to evolution.
