Hostway Virtualized Dedicated Servers

Clients using Hostway's new VMware ESX Server platform enjoy all the benefits of a fully virtualized x86 server environment:

1. A native Operating System of their own choosing (on which they are free to install anything they want)
2. Complete freedom from the underlying OS
3. Total control over resource allocation
   
   

In every conceivable sense then - a normal dedicated server, but with realisable gains in terms of availability, scalability and utilisation.

Why Hostway?

• As an experienced VMware Certified Hosting Provider Hostway take charge of maintaining and managing the physical hardware and network layers of the VMware virtualized platform.
  
  
• Beyond that, clients can either opt for a 'managed' service - whereby Hostway will go even further and manage the applications and services running on the virtualized server - or for an 'unmanaged' administration agreement where the client has complete autonomy at server level.
  
  

7 Reasons to adopt a VMware solution from Hostway:

VMware solutions are:-

1. Easily Deployed

• Virtualized server technologies make it possible to provision a new server in minutes without investing in new hardware. They are effectively 'on demand'.
  
• You can also simplify server provisioning by building a virtual machine once and deploying it multiple times.

2. Highly Available (HA)

• A high degree of fail-over reslience can be achieved using an automated virtualized platform. Once virtualized copies of your servers have been created, it's possible to switch over to these replicated servers automatically, should the original servers go offline or become currupt.
  
• In addition - technology such as VMware VMotion will keep your IT environment up and running with no interruptions. Using VMotion you can:

* Perform live migrations with zero downtime, undetectable to the user.
* Continuously and automatically optimize virtual machines within resource pools.
* Perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.
* Proactively move virtual machines away from failing or underperforming servers.

3. Agile/Scalable

• Virtualized servers are far more flexible than physical servers, allowing you to scale resources up or down as needed. If your website or applications suddenly become oversubscribed - no problem - simply launch an additional VM Server in tandem, in minutes - not hours or days!
  
• You can easily allocate more performance, memory or storage to a virtual server without the considerable cost, technical expertise and downtime this involves with a physical server.

4. Flexible/Cost-effective

• Virtualized servers enable you to optimise server utilisation.
  
• Streamline software development and testing by allowing developers to create multiple environments with different operating systems on the same server.
  
• You can also re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server in a virtual machine running on new hardware and operating system.

5. Futureproof

• As you'll be hosted on the latest hardware, maintained and managed by Hostway, you'll never be looking to change hardware every few months or years as is typically the case.

6. Open to All

• The efficiency and cost savings of server virtualization are open to all, and can be realized by companies of any size.

7. Easily Manageable

• VMware environments can be complex to manage in-house at sysadmin level, and require a significant level of expertise and certification.
  
• As an experienced VMware Certified Hosting Provider, Certified Microsoft Solutions Provider, and Red Hat Ready Hosting Provider, Hostway have the knowledege, skills and the staff to support and run a 24/7 VMware environment - leaving you free to concentrate on development.

For further infomation please call us on 0808 180 1880 (free within the UK) or +44(0)20 7538 8000 (outside the UK), or alternatively send an email to solutions@hostway.co.uk