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Transform your School, College or Business with Virtualisation

Virtualisation dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organisation. Internal resources are underutilised under the old “one server, one application” model and IT admins spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating. An automated datacentre, built on a VMware virtualisation platform, lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. VMware vSphere delivers resources, applications—even servers—when and where they’re needed. VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware vSphere.  GRA can assist you in such a transformation in a range of ways, ranging from general discussions, arranging for consultants to discuss in more detail or training your staff before and after implementation and deployment.

What is Virtualisation?

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application. This leaves most machines vastly underutilised. Virtualisation lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer. While others are leaping aboard the virtualisation bandwagon now, VMware is the market leader in virtualisation. VMware technology is production-proven, used by more than 170,000 customers, including 100% of the Fortune 100.

How Does Virtualisation Work?

The VMware virtualisation platform is built on a business-ready architecture. Use software such as VMware vSphere and VMware ESXi (a free download) to transform or “virtualise” the hardware resources of an x86-based computer—including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller—to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a “real” computer. Each virtual machine contains a complete system, eliminating potential conflicts. VMware virtualisation works by inserting a thin layer of software directly on the computer hardware or on a host operating system. This contains a virtual machine monitor or “hypervisor” that allocates hardware resources dynamically and transparently. Multiple operating systems run concurrently on a single physical computer and share hardware resources with each other. By encapsulating an entire machine, including CPU, memory, operating system, and network devices, a virtual machine is completely compatible with all standard x86 operating systems, applications, and device drivers. You can safely run several operating systems and applications at the same time on a single computer, with each having access to the resources it needs when it needs them.

Manage your Resources with the Lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

It’s not just virtualisation that’s important. You need the management tools to run those machines and the ability to run the wide selection of applications and infrastructure services your institution depends on. VMware lets you increase service availability while eliminating error-prone manual tasks. IT operations are more efficient and effective with VMware virtualisation. Your staff will handle double or triple the number of servers, giving users access to the services they need while retaining centralised control. Deliver built-in availability, security, and performance across the board, from the desktop to the datacentre.