Virtualisation of the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences Presented by Andrew Exley
Where are we coming from?
57 Servers
Duplication of services
No control of environment
2 system administrators
VMWare ESX 3.0
Where to from here?
Disaster Recovery SAN HDS AMS500 SAN HDS AMS500 HP BLADES VMWARE ESX HP BLADES VMWARE ESX VMWARE VMOTION
Virtualised Desktops
HARDWARE OS APPLICATIONS
OS VMWare VDI VMWare ACE HARDWARE VMWare ESX APPLICATIONS Altiris SVS Microsoft Softgrid AppStream BrokerTerminals Leostream Wyse HP Dell Maple BOSaNOVA
Hardware independence
Utility or “on demand” computing
Streaming Applications
Better client self service
Centralised management
Improved RTW times Happier clients
IT Support with virtulisation
“virtual machines don’t know that they are virtual”
Thank you
Questions?