VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 represents the current leader in field of server virtualisation. The main product, VMware ESX, installs directly onto a ‘bare metal’ server, providing an abstraction layer between the physical server and the virtualised servers running on it. When combined with a storage solution such as SAN, NAS or iSCSI and VMware’s Virtual Center Server; businesses can expect the following key benefits:
Increased server efficiency in terms of server resource utilisation
Improved high availability and disaster recovery facilities
Rapid server provisioning and deployment of new servers
VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 provides the means to deliver virtual networking. By placing a secure virtual server on the boundary between the physical network and the virtual servers within a VMware ESX environment; we are able to ensure that clients, whose primary concern is data security, can in turn provide secure environments to their own clients.
