Virtualisation of the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences Presented by Andrew Exley.

Virtualisation of the Faculty of Biological and

Chemical Sciences

Presented by Andrew Exley

Where are we coming from?

57 Servers

Duplication of services

No control of environment

2 system administrators

VMWare ESX 3.0

Where to from here?

Disaster Recovery

SANHDS AMS500

SANHDS AMS500

SANHDS AMS500

SANHDS AMS500

HP BLADES

VMWARE ESX

HP BLADES

VMWARE ESX

VMWARE VMOTION

Virtualised Desktops

HARDWARE

OS

APPLICATIONS

OS

VMWare VDIVMWare ACE

HARDWARE

VMWare ESX

APPLICATIONS

Altiris SVSMicrosoft Softgrid

AppStream

Broker Terminals

Leostream WyseHPDell

MapleBOSaNOVA

Hardware independence

Utility or “on demand” computing

Streaming Applications

Better client self service

Centralised management

Improved RTW timesHappier clients

“virtual machines don’t know that they are virtual”

Thank you

Questions?