Virtualisation | Desktop Virtualisation, Server Virtualisation | Troye

What is Virtualisation?

Harness the Power of Virtualisation and Simplify Enterprise Computing

• Application • Desktop • Server

Transform, optimise and manage IT beyond the limitations of physical infrastructure to a virtual workplace.

Deliver Applications, Desktops and Servers from the DataCentre.

Virtualisation enables centralised management of IT systems, improves hardware utilisation through consolidation, maximizes available resources thereby reducing costs related to hardware, software and power consumption, reducing operational costs and increasing productivity.

Virtualisation

Troye provides the foundation to deliver servers, applications and desktops anywhere, with the fastest performance, highest security, lowest total cost and best user experience, providing customers with a decisive competitive advantage.

Troye is an accredited Gold Citrix Solutions Advisor, Microsoft Partner, VMWare Enterprise Partner providing End-to-End solutions including the supply and installation of server hardware, software, workstations, Windows terminals and peripherals.

Virtualisation solutions include Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft App-V (MDOP) and VMWare VSphere.

Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer is the simplest and most effective way to virtualise servers and deliver dynamic data centres. The powerful provisioning capabilities available in Citrix XenServer makes it the only platform that can integrate the deployment and management of virtual and physical servers into a unified dynamic virtualised infrastructure, increasing server and storage utilisation, reducing cost of equipment, power, cooling and real estate.

Citrix XenDesktop

Deliver virtual Windows desktops from the data centre more securely, more reliably and at a lower cost using Citrix XenDesktop. With a Citrix XenDesktop solution, desktops are centrally hosted and managed in the data centre and virtually delivered to end users.

CITRIX XenApp

Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) provides the benefits of centralised management, universal access, exceptional performance and improved security for all business-critical applications and data. Application delivery is made possible of virtually any application, across any type of connection, to almost any type of device. Management of remote users via WAN or dial-in connectivity is performed from a central location.

Application installations, updates and additions can be made once – on the server – and then be instantly available to all users. Citrix’s Application Delivery solutions facilitate a standardised environment for management and delivery of all information resources, which is necessary for the move to Service-Orientated computing Architecture.

Citrix Provisioning Server

Streaming of Server and Desktop Images, Citrix Provisioning Server delivers complete workloads consisting of operating systems, applications and configuration on demand from the network, configured, delivered and managed centrally, reducing total costs, increasing security and flexibility.

VMWARE

VMware VSphere

VMWare Vsphere is the most widely deployed software suite for optimising and managing industry standard IT environments through server virtualisation. VMware Vsphere provides built-in centralised management and resource optimisation that deliver cost savings as well as increased operational efficiency, flexibility and IT service levels.

Eliminating many of the constraints of traditional hardware VMware VSphere allows companies to:

• Implement production server consolidation and containment
• Provide advanced business continuity protection at lower cost
• Streamline software test and development
• Enable non-disruptive maintenance of IT Environments
• Improve responsiveness to business needs with instant provisioning

VMware VirtualCentre

VMWare VirtualCentre delivers centralsied management, operational automation, resource optimisation and high availability to IT environments enabling integration with third-party system management products.

VMware DRS

VMWare DRS aligns available resources with pre-defined business priorities and includes Distributed Power Management which balances workloads to reduce power consumption in the Datacentre.

VMware VMotion

VMware VMotion technology allows live migration of virtual machines from one physical server to another for non-disruptive maintenance of IT environments.

VMware Storage VMotion

VMware Storage VMotion allows the live migration of virtual machine disks from one shared storage location to another with no disruption or downtime to application users.

VMware HA

VMware HA enables cost effective application availability, independent of hardware and operating systems.

VMWare Update Manager

VMWare Update Manager manages patches/updates for physical ESX Servers as well as guest operating systems, enforcing compliance and securing IT infrastructure.

VMware Consolidated Backup

VMware Consolidated Backup provides a centralised backup facility for virtual machines.

Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager

Microsoft’s server virtualisation offering consists of Hyper-V, a feature of Windows Server 2008, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Customers may refer to the Microsoft solution simply as “Hyper-V” although those deploying the solution will use both technologies in most cases.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides a management solution for the virtualised data center that helps enable centralised management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilisation, and dynamic resource optimisation across multiple virtualisation platforms. Virtual Machine Manager delivers the following key features:

• Designed for managing virtual machines running on Windows Server® 2008 Hyper–V™ and Microsoft Hyper-V Server.
• End-to-end support for consolidating physical servers onto a virtual infrastructure.
• Performance and Resource Optimisation (PRO) for dynamic and responsive management of virtual infrastructure.
• Intelligent Placement of virtual workloads on the best-suited physical host servers.
• A complete library to centrally manage all the building blocks of the virtual data center.
• P2V and V2V conversion capabilities
• Full system snapshots - Live VM’s can be saved, including disk, memory and CPU state.
• Role-based access - System Center VMM includes granular administrative rights by user role.
• Includes "high availability" via the Windows Clustering technologies
• Heterogeneous Virtualisation Management from One Console