Enterprise Servers Business Solutions Virtualization

Unisys supports all major virtual machine technology offerings:

• VMware GSX and follow on VMware server
• VMware ESX
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Xen

The Unisys optimized infrastructure suite incorporates best-of-breed virtual machine technologies, along with other proven methodologies, to deliver highly scalable, flexible, and efficient x86 solutions that enhance value to progressive IT organizations.

These solutions generate a quick payback with virtually no risk. But, they also position your organization to take advantage of available and emerging real-time infrastructure enablers designed to closely align your business needs with IT resources.

Compared to competitive alternatives, the Unisys scale up solution delivers:

• Reduced connectivity costs
• More effective use of aggregated overhead resources
• Ability to deploy more virtual instances per socket
• Capacity to efficiently take advantage of larger guest instances
  • 4 processor in VMware ESX 3.0
  • 32 processor in Xen 3.0

It all results in reduced cost per virtual instance. And, the advantages of deploying x86 workloads in this robust enterprise-class environment are not limited to immediate acquisition cost concerns.

It also provides advantages through:

• Fewer physical servers to maintain
• Fewer virtual machine hosts to maintain and patch
• Cleaner design to ease backup/recovery and business continuance

All of these benefits drive lower operational risk and lower operational expense.

Contemporary infrastructure solutions also have to recognize the different characteristics of workloads in the portfolio, as well as their associated organizational requirements. Not all workloads are best served by deployment in virtual machines. And, for practical and economic reasons, an IT organization does not handle all applications in the same fashion. Unisys understands this and uses discovery and sizing tools to design and implement solutions that deploy the target portfolio to the objectives of your organization. “One-size-fits-all” solutions very rarely provide a comfortable fit.