Virtualization solutions from HP and VMware provide simple, affordable business continuity for midsize businesses.
Business Continuity
Businesses need to protect their data against a multitude of threats, from software glitches and hardware failures to human error and natural disasters. With virtualization, any physical server can be the recovery target for virtual servers, making fast recovery possible. Virtual machines can be replicated to alternate locations and brought online in just minutes or hours.
Virtualization allows businesses to:
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Protect applications and data in real time
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Increase hardware utilization
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Decrease the data center footprint
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Reduce administrative costs
By creating a virtual environment, IT managers can recover from disaster quickly because virtual machines eliminate the need to perform OS and application installations. In addition, the disaster recovery process is simplified because the hardware independence of virtual machines eliminates the complications that arise from hardware differences between primary and recovery sites.
Another benefit of virtualization is the cost savings. With virtualization, disaster recovery costs are reduced by leveraging the flexibility of hardware-independent virtual machines that can run on any system, including repurposed servers.
Virtualization with HP and VMware
Together, HP ProLiant, VMware ESX Server, and HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Software provide a proven, flexible solution that safeguards data and allows recovery from virtually every calamity.
VMware ESX Server extends the benefits of HP ProLiant by providing a dynamic, scalable virtual machine environment able to host replicas of the physical servers that businesses wish to protect. HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Software provides replication of valuable Windows data to another server. The solution allows multiple replicated Microsoft® Windows® operating systems and their applications to run independently on virtual machines, while sharing the physical resources of one or more HP ProLiant servers.
To learn more about how HP Virtualization solutions can help you protect and restore data, read our Virtualization how-to guide.
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