In this blog, we’ll explore ten reasons to consider VMware vSphere, a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility, and the leading server virtualisation software.
A potent tool for the safe, manageable acceleration of your digital transformation to hybrid cloud, vSphere helps you run, manage, connect, and secure your applications in a common operating environment across clouds, making it the ideal heart of your modern Software-Defined Datacentre (SDDC).
Here, ten are those ten reasons to consider VMware vSphere as your server virtualisation platform.
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- Simplification
VMware vSphere’s vCenter Server Architecture with embedded Platform Services Controller (PSC) simplifies and centralises key infrastructure services such as single sign-on, licensing, tagging, global permissions, custom roles, and certificate management.
Hiding complexity and enhancing management simplicity, vSphere frees your IT staff from excessive complexity and burdensome routine tasks, accelerating those tasks, reducing error rates and allowing them to focus on higher-value activities.
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- Enhanced Performance and Scale
An increasingly popular deployment model for vCenter Server, and likely to become VMware’s definitive deployment model, vCenter Server Appliance increases performance and scalability by 2-3 times, enabling you to do more with the same hardware, and easily extend your platform when you need to.
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- Streamlined Management
The HTML5-based VMware vSphere ClientTM centralises visibility, simplifies management at scale, and supports extensibility across the hybrid cloud. All this is delivered through a single, centralised console for management efficiency.
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- App Performance Boosted
A non-volatile memory technology, VMware vSphere Persistent Memory enhances app performance by up to six times.
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- Enhance NVIDIA Flexibility
As well as enabling near bare-metal performance levels from NVIDIA GPUs in some applications, vSphere also supports GPU sharing, allowing for greater flexibility in GPU resource allocation, improving utilisation.
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- Empowered Developers
VMware vSphere makes your developers’ lives easier, VMware vCenter’s REST APIs simplifying complex task automation and integrating smoothly with Java and Python via SDKs, working effectively with your existing infrastructure, tools and processes.
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- Stronger Data Security
Vmware vSphere Encrypted vMotion® and VM encryption ensure your data is always secure, whether in store or in transit.
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- Protected VMs
Support for Microsoft Credential Guard and vTPM means you can protect your VMs more effectively, for example by enabling Microsoft Virtualization-based Security (VBS) for Windows guest operating systems.
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- Accelerated Patching and Upgrades
Single Reboot Upgrade and vSphere Quick Boot speed up the patching and upgrade process, improving host availability and shrinking maintenance windows.
10 Unified Cloud Management
VMware CloudTM on AWS allows you to use the same management tools and expertise in the cloud as you have been using on-premise, so there’s no need to retrain staff when migrating to the cloud. You can also leverage your existing on-premise policies for governance, operations and enterprise security.
Next Steps
VMware vSphere is highly versatile, offering a different set of benefits in different environments. Call 01483 520200 to talk to an MTI expert about how it could benefit your business, or book a VMware Virtualisation Assessment.