Virtualization

Outsource the stress of managing in-house servers

As your business grows, so does the need for server space and the latest technologies. If your business could benefit from an IT solution that allows you to move server workloads whenever you need to, get upgrades at a moment’s notice and rapidly scale your technology as your organization expands, virtualization is the answer.

Virtualization solutions from Kerkhoff Technologies allow you to free up office space by removing in-house servers while eliminating cooling costs, stressful server management and complex server setups in your office.

Nearly all of our new server setups use either virtualization or containerization. As you can read anywhere else, benefits included improved security, better management, easier disaster recovery, and less complex server setups.

Linux container-based Virtualization

For Linux-only virtualization, we generally use OpenVZ which is actually a container system rather then CPU level virtualization system. Performance is much higher and RAM/disk usage lower then with virtualization systems like VMware and Xen. OpenVZ is included with the latest Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) release, which streamlines installation and upgrades: there is no need to compile custom kernels or use third party package repositories.

Bare-metal Hypervisor based Virtualization

When more typical virtualization is required, we use VMware ESXi 4.0. While closed-source and proprietary, this free virtualization provides an excellent stepping stone to the full VMware vSphere platform when required and as budget allows.

Virtualization gives you the power to do all this:

• Improve application performance – with dynamic load balancing and fast provisioning
• Simplified disaster recovery – prevent costly data loss
• Do more with less – consolidate your servers and free up more resources
• Save money and go green – eliminating servers lowers your energy bills and your carbon footprint

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