Offers access to an Flex System technical consultant. The challenges. Virtualization has become more crucial for busines
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Flex System Virtualized Speeding the deployment of your virtualized environment Highlights ●●
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Enables and deploys virtualization on the Flex System™ quickly Provides hands-on skills transfer to expand the knowledge of your IT staff Helps you gain a greater understanding of virtualization on Flex System Offers access to an Flex System technical consultant
The challenges Virtualization has become more crucial for business applications as IT systems have grown in complexity. You need to improve the availability, performance and utilization of your IT resources, while controlling IT complexity. Virtualization can deliver massive efficiency in the data center, but your administrators must be skilled for successful adoption and use. Obtaining the technical skills to perform your own hardware, systems management and virtualization implementations can accelerate time to value.
Our service The Flex System™ Virtualized service is designed to help you rapidly deploy and enable VMware vSphere, Linux KVM or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization with high availability on a Flex System chassis. A Flex System technical consultant provides hands-on skills transfer and technical maintenance guidance so you can implement a reliable cloud-ready infrastructure designed for efficient virtualization.
Meeting your Flex System virtualization requirements System x® Enterprise Solution Services can help you develop a two-cluster solution using an approach that includes installing and configuring VMware vSphere, Linux KVM or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization engines on a management cluster and creating a compute cluster. This service also provides a review of your internal storage configurations, FlexSystem Manager™ configuration, and basic network integration using pre-configured switches such as MFG. The end result is a fully-configured virtualization solution that you can use to start deploying workloads in five days per chassis. System x Enterprise Solution Services can help you: ●● ●
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Deploy the selected hypervisor to all server nodes. Configure and manage IP addresses on all nodes. Deploy virtual appliances. Use the IBM FlashCopy® feature for faster deploys and captures.
Take full advantage of virtualization enablement services A Flex System consultant will work with you to explore your specific virtualization requirements and walk you through each step to set up the virtualized environment. This process includes hardware systems management, network integration, skills transfer and customer engagement summary documentation.
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Why System x
In addition to implementing a virtualization engine on the Flex System, a goal of this service is to provide you with an advanced understanding of and proficiency in all of its capabilities within your setting. This service is designed to help you gain the knowledge and tools needed to assemble and configure a virtualized computing environment.
System x is the leading provider of x86 systems for the data center. The portfolio includes rack, tower, blade, dense and converged systems, and supports enterprise class performance, reliability and security. System x also offers a full range of networking, storage, software and solutions, and comprehensive services supporting business needs throughout the IT lifecycle.
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The Flex System Virtualized service helps speed time to value by providing the Flex System expertise needed to integrate a hardware, systems management and virtualization implementation into your current environment. You will also receive documentation with the IP addresses and credentials for all of the components.
To learn more about System x Enterprise Solution Services, please contact
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[email protected] for Europe, Middle East and Africa. We also invite you to join the System x Enterprise Solution Services LinkedIn Group at http://lnkd.in/esmzzb7
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