Do you want to reduce your maintenance and purchasing costs, in servers and desktop PCs? Virtualization is the answer.

Virtualization is a term which makes reference to a mechanism through which you can execute several machines simultaneously within a single physical computer. These machines are virtual machines running within a single physical server. This allows you to run multiple machines within a single computer and the end user will never notice that these machines are actually Virtual Machines.

Through this mechanism it is possible, for instance, to have all our servers running in a single server with enough power to run the services rendered by all of them. Instead of having to use a full computer for each of our servers, we use a single computer with sufficient power (for example, in RAID disk systems, with 4 CPUs and 8GB of RAM) to run all the servers, which become virtual machines running like processes within the operating system that exists in the single server.

This means great savings on hardware, since we only need one computer for all our servers. It also saves space and electricity consumption.

We may even get to virtualize the desktop PCs of all the employees in our office, connecting them through Thin Clients to their corresponding virtual machines or terminal server. The Thin Clients (clients) are hosts that occupy very little space, have no hard drive, boot from a CD or USB port, and allow the access through terminal Server, VNC, etc., to the computer wanted.

Therefore, it is possible to virtualize your whole office, gaining the space which each employee's PC and the server computers occupied before. Furthermore this can result in substantial savings in electricity consumption and a better management and control of equipment of our employees.

Virtualization Cluster in High Availability

Considering the importance of the computer where all virtual machines of an office are located, we should not forget the option of setting up the environment through virtualization in cluster through cluster systems of Virtualization in High Availability.

These systems consist of two nodes configured in a way that enables the implementation of virtual machines simultaneously on both cluster nodes, but in the event of failure of one of the nodes in the cluster, the brother node assumes his role running your virtual machines, so that the continuity of the virtualization service is guaranteed.

Disaster Recovery

Thanks to virtualization it is possible to replicate, daily and in a quite simple way, all our virtualized servers in a hardware computer located in another office or, for example, in the CPD of SOLTECSIS as a hosted server (housing), so that in the event of a disaster in the central office, it is very easy to recover the operational activity of the company since it will have a fully operational node with an updated copy of all our virtual machines and data.

As simple as carrying the node to the office or to a new location, connecting it to the network and starting working with virtual machines at the same place they were, when the last synchronization was carried out.

This is what is known as a Disaster Recovery. Thanks to virtualization, this process is very simple and effective and allows you to have a daily copy of all servers and PCs in your company, so that the recovery is as simple as booting the virtual machines in the Disaster Recovery Node.

Since the node Disaster Recovery stores all the information about the company, it is possible to use encrypted file systems in order to store the daily synchronized data and virtual machines. In addition, it is also possible to have this node on only during the synchronization process period of time, increasing this way its security,("the most secure computer is the one that is off ").