What is Virtual Infrastructure

Reduce costs with virtual infrastructure Reduce capital and operating costs, and increase operational efficiency and flexibility. Go further on the basis of server consolidation and deploy a standard virtualization platform to automate the entire IT infrastructure. VMware customers have leveraged the power of virtualization to more effectively manage IT capacity, provide higher service levels, and streamline IT processes. We coined a term for the virtualization of IT infrastructure and called it "virtual infrastructure."

What is virtual infrastructure?

With virtual infrastructure, the physical resources of multiple computers can be shared across the entire infrastructure. With virtual machines, you can share the resources of a single physical machine among multiple virtual machines for maximum efficiency. Resources are shared between multiple virtual infrastructure machines and applications. Business needs are the driving force that dynamically maps the physical resources of the infrastructure to the application, even as those needs change. Aggregate x86 servers, networks, and storage into a unified IT resource pool that applications can use whenever they need them. This resource optimization approach helps organizations achieve greater flexibility, reducing capital and operating costs.

The virtual infrastructure includes the following components:

• Bare-metal hypervisor to fully virtualize every x86 computer.
• Virtual infrastructure services (such as resource management and consolidated backups) to optimize the available resources between virtual machines.
• Automation solutions to optimize specific IT processes, such as deployment or disaster recovery, by providing special capabilities.

Separate your software environment from its underlying hardware infrastructure so that you can aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure, and networks into a shared resource pool. These resources are then dynamically and securely provided to the application as needed. With this groundbreaking approach, our customers can build self-optimizing data centers in the form of building blocks using inexpensive, industry-standard servers and achieve high levels of utilization, availability, automation, and flexibility.

Benefits of virtual infrastructure.Build your virtual infrastructure with the leading VMware virtualization platform to enjoy the benefits of virtualization in your IT production environment. VMware Infrastructure 3 unifies distributed hardware resources to create a shared, dynamic platform while achieving built-in availability, security, and scalability for applications. It supports multiple operating system and application environments, as well as network and storage infrastructure. We design solutions that run independently of the hardware and operating system, so you have a wide choice of platforms. Our solutions provide key integration points that enable hardware and infrastructure management vendors and partners to provide products with unique value that can be applied uniformly across all application and operating system environments.

Get more out of your existing hardware.

Our customers have reported that they have achieved significant results with our virtual infrastructure solutions, including:

• x86 server utilization increased to 60-80% (5-15% on non-virtualized PCs).
• Cost savings of more than $ 3,000 per virtualized workload per year.
• New application deployments can be completed in minutes instead of days or weeks.
• 85% reduction in recovery time from unplanned downtime.