VMware

Starfire Technologies provides Virtualization Specialists who are experts in the field. We offer insight into correctly configuring virtual environments to suit your requirements. Our specialists can assist you in designing a virtualized systems architecture or optimize your existing VMware environment.
 

Get the most out of your IT infrastructure

VMware is the leading virtualization technology for x86 architecture. Starfire Technologies uses the award winning VMware vSphere 4 to help organizations virtualize servers, storage, and networks to make resource utilization more effective and efficient while delivering optimized services to the business. As important, VMware enables IT divisions to reduce hardware, maintenance, and administration costs throughout the enterprise.

Our Virtualization Specialist can help you realize these vSphere 4 business benefits:

  • Reduction in server infrastructure costs by up to 70%
  • Enhanced and cost-effective business continuity
  • Unrivaled system portability – rapid system redeployment or replacement
  • Host system flexibility- free to choose hardware vendor
  • No compromises on cost or performance from virtualization

Technical Benefits:

  • Higher server utilization = Less servers & less cost
  • Rapid system provisioning and configuration
  • Simplified systems management
  • Increased application availability
  • Legacy systems support
  • System portability
  • Superior disaster recovery

Migrating your IT environment to a virtualized environment should not be a leap of faith. Starfire Technologies' Virtualization Specialists will help you understand the infrastructure transformation you are about to make and can assist you with developing a business case for virtualization.

The value Starfire delivers to your VMware Infrastructure project:

  • Powerful results using innovative virtualization methodologies:
  • Solution mapping - identify all potential virtualization obstacles
  • Project architecture – address specific infrastructure issues
  • Solutions that deliver what you need:
  • Optimal VMware configuration (based on your environment)
  • VMware projects within your budget & time constraints

VMware's vSphere 4 product represents a technology breakthrough. It offers significant levels of flexibility, serviceability, and efficiency to any IT environment. Starfire Technologies is able to accelerate the implementation of vSphere 4 and help you avoid many of the common pitfalls of migrating from a traditional architecture to a virtualized architecture. Our field-developed best practices deliver solid results and will be leveraged for your vSphere 4 project. As a result, implementation times are enhanced.

What is delivered in vSphere 4?

VMware ESX Server
Increases hardware utilization by sharing resources across a host

VMware VMFS
Virtual Machine File System enables multiple installations of ESX server to access the same virtual machine storage concurrently

VMware Virtual SMP
Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing enables a single virtual machine to use multiple physical processors, simultaneously

VMware vCenter Server
Delivers centralized management, operation automation, resource optimization, and high availability

VMware DRS
Distributed Resource Scheduler aligns resource utilization with define business priorities and streamlines resource intensive operations

VMware VMotion
A customer favorite! Allows the migration of live virtual machines which enables nondisruptive maintenance of the IT environment

VMware HA
VMware High Availability enables cost-effective application of system availability independent of hardware and operating systems

VMware Consolidated Backup
Centralized backup for virtual machines. It enables virtual machine contents to be backed up from a centralized Microsoft Windows 2003 proxy server rather than directly from ESX server.