Virtualise

Virtualisation Platforms

Less Hardware, More Software

The concept of virtualization, splitting one hardware platform into multiple software based virtually separate servers, is fast becoming the accepted norm for many hosting environments. It enables operations to make the best use of server hosting resources, in terms of server capacity and physical rack space.

ACC Yotta also understand that 'going virtual' is a big step for many businesses, many of which are so tied up in the day to day firefighting of IT server management, that learning and deploying what to many is a completely alien architecture, can seem impossible. As experts in this filed, we'll help you make the move, on a timeline to suit.

ACC Yotta are big fans of VMWare server products, but are also keeping a close eye on 'Oracle VM', a server virtualization platform which we think looks set to become a serious competitor to VMWare in the not too distant future. We can see a distinctive advantage in the VIs suitability for certain hosting setups, in the way that it can move a live VM from hardware to hardware - based on that VMs resource use, without any downtime. It is also has a considerably lower price tag than a VMWare based setup.

A lot of our lab testing looks at the differences between these two products in terms of hardware compatibility, deployability, 'learnability' and of course, the 'Guest OS' performance.

Like with the Lefthand Networks VSA platform, our lab testing demonstrates that any performance short comings that may result from deploying an application in a VM, and perhaps with less dedicated server resources available to it - can be easily countered by some effective application acceleration placed upstream from the Virtual Server cluster.