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Virtualisation has been around for a long time but nevertheless is described as the the next evolutionary step in IT, its time has come. Believing it to be a key trend, the ABSI team co-operated with, VMware and Sun Microsystems to deliver a well-attended half-day seminar on VDI on June 23rd 2009 in Brussels with people from a wide range of organisations both public and private. The speakers focussed on how how this exciting technology can reduce IT costs, improve flexibility and give you better control. Topics discussed were: What virtualisation is and why you really should know about it, Virtualisation techniques and Desktop Virtualisation- leveraging the benefits. Infrastructure Virtualisation of at Brussels Airlines featured as an impressive success case study. Also included were presentations on VMware vSphere 4, VDI Solution of VMware and Sun Virtualised Desktop.
What is Virtualisation
Virtualisation is in essence to separation of a service resource or request from the physical delviery of that service. It means that hardware such as servers, storage and other hardware can act like a resource-pool instead of separate systems. For example a single computer can run mutliple operating systems and clusters of computers can appear to be a single machine to a user. It allows the creation of virtual machines (VM) with virtual resources (CPU, operating system, storage..) and includes a hypervisor which gives out resources to the VM on an on-demand basis.
The Benefits of Virtualisation
The benefits are many and include efficiency, availability, cost savings, and productivity. Virtualisation techniques applied to desktop infrastructure give considerable benefits in managing user communities and the configuration, deployment and management of desktop infrastructure. In the case of Brussels Airlines, virtualization allowed the reduction of 40 physical severs into 6 servers using VMware for the MS Windows environment and Solaris zones for the unix environment. The advantages included: fewer servers, less electrical consumption, operational simplification, increased flexibility, increased reliability and higher availability.
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