Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines. With server virtualization, you can consolidate workloads of underutilized server machines onto a smaller number of fully utilized machines. Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. _______________________________________________________________________

CONSIDERING VIRTUALIZTION?
FIND OUT HOW MUCH YOU'LL SAVE AND WHAT YOU'LL NEED.

VMware Capacity Planner is an IT capacity planning tool that helps you gain insight into IT resource utilization and aids in developing a virtualization roadmap for server containment and consolidation. VMware Capacity Planner can help you plan for capacity optimization and design an optimal solution to achieve maximum performance.  You’ll find out how much you’ll save and what you’ll need – even before you virtualize. 

Read how one company organization used VMware Capacity Planner as a proof of concept for disaster recovery implementation plan.
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READY, SET, GO: GET A JUMP START ON VIRTUALIZING

VMware Jumpstart will teach you all of the basics of virtualization, as well as perform the installation with you. This interactive workshop focuses on architecture, administration and operations, and shares best practices.  This program accelerates your virtual machine deployment, mitigates risk by leveraging experienced consultants and proven best practices, and provides a configuration workshop in your own environment.
Learn more about VMware’s Jumpstart.

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NORTEC PARTNERS PROVIDE VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS

LeftHand iSCSI SAN Solutions protect against downtime and data loss.  Highly available and cost-effective, LeftHand architecture clusters storage devices into a single virtual pool, automating storage management and providing continual access to business-critical information. Read a case study about the iSCSI SAN Solution.

VMware ESX is a “bare-metal” hypervisor that partitions physical servers in multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine represents a complete system, with processors, memory, networking, storage and BIOS. VMware ESX enables multiple virtual machines to share physical resources. run unmodified operating systems and applications, and run the most resource-intensive applications side by side on the same server.  Learn more about the VMware infrastucture.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides a dynamic, reliable, and scalable virtualization platform combined with a single set of integrated management tools to manage both physical and virtual resources, enabling you to create an agile and dynamic data center. Hyper-V enables server consolidation, business continuity and disaster recovery, testing and development, and dynamic data center.  View Hyper-V product features.