Heard about virtual networking? Read on...
Virtual networks, virtual servers, virtual workstations, VMware, hypervisor. You may or may not have heard of these terms but you will. This looks to be the way of the future.
Basically what it means is running operating systems such as windows server and linux in a software based environment - giving you the ability to run multiple servers on a single machine. As you can imagine, this greatly reduces the hardware costs requiring fewer hardware servers. The hardware that drives these virtual servers is still hardware, a VM software is installed - like ESX or hypervisor - and this in turn will drive multiple servers on the one hardware box.
They are very stable and act the same as any hardware based server you are currently running, virtualizing your current servers is completely transparent to the end user. The workstations you have really don't know any different, you can still share files and printers and there is really no limit to what you can virtualize.
Thank you.
Robert Hynes
http://www.rhcnetworks.com
Edmonton, Alberta.
Specialist in Servers, Networking and Network Security.
Virtual networks, virtual servers, virtual workstations, VMware, hypervisor. You may or may not have heard of these terms but you will. This looks to be the way of the future.
Basically what it means is running operating systems such as windows server and linux in a software based environment - giving you the ability to run multiple servers on a single machine. As you can imagine, this greatly reduces the hardware costs requiring fewer hardware servers. The hardware that drives these virtual servers is still hardware, a VM software is installed - like ESX or hypervisor - and this in turn will drive multiple servers on the one hardware box.
They are very stable and act the same as any hardware based server you are currently running, virtualizing your current servers is completely transparent to the end user. The workstations you have really don't know any different, you can still share files and printers and there is really no limit to what you can virtualize.
Thank you.
Robert Hynes
http://www.rhcnetworks.com
Edmonton, Alberta.
Specialist in Servers, Networking and Network Security.
