Managing Virtualization

Virtualizing your computer infrastructure changes the dynamics of system administration.  Where operations were once distributed - such as backups, patches, or hardware upgrades, consolidating your computer resources centralizes these operations and in some ways makes them more complex.  The traditional approach to data backup is a prime example where installing agents on each virtual machine can negatively impact your ability to consolidate.  Likewise, when you perform hardware upgrades, you are not impacting one application or service, you may impact 30 or more.  Lumenate evaluates these challenges and the solutions around them regularly to help you be successful with your virtualization strategy.

 Managing Virtualization

• Standardize OS and application deployments with golden images
  • deploy server (or desktop) instances in minutes
  • Increase security
  • Develop, patch, and test against the golden image, every server deployed will be base lined from the ‘certified’ image
• Patch Management
  • Virtualization decreases system administrator workload due to the ease of deploying guests and isolating applications.
  • Patch management tools simplify guest sprawl and allow system administrators to manage more assets in the same or less amount of time than with physical servers
• Simplify  infrastructure  management and maintenance
  • Migrate guests off physical assets non-disruptively to enable maintenance activities during business hours.
  • Business availability requirements no longer have to revolve around maintenance windows
  • Enable Data Center managers to efficiently manage the infrastructure
• Bring fault tolerance to your entire enterprise
  • Clusters and high availability are not “only for the rich” anymore
  • Service business needs for all applications without the complexity of clustering software or application integration
  • Reduce costs and complexity of application management by utilizing a common infrastructure that provides high availability to all virtualized OS instances regardless of OS type
  • Increase availability with additional technologies that provide instant failover
  • Protect mission critical applications from losing any transactions
  • Enable system administrators and management to “sleep at night” knowing that automated fault tolerance capabilities are managing the environment for them.