Managed Hypervisor

Claranet’s Managed Hypervisor uses virtualisation technology to convert a single managed hardware server into multiple dedicated virtual servers, reducing your setup costs and ongoing power, space and connectivity charges.

With Managed Hypervisor, all applications share the same CPU, disk and memory, so each application takes the resources it needs and none of your capability is left unutilised. Should your business demand you to grow your website, database or applications, adding a new operating system is as simple as switching on a computer.

For example:

Traditional Infrastructure
Company A has invested in 3 physical hardware servers to support their applications.

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  • Server 1 is dedicated to their website and uses a Linux operating system.
  • Server 2 is dedicated to their database and uses a Windows operating system.
  • Server 3 is dedicated to their applications and uses a Linux operating system.

It's likely that Company A’s servers are not using their full resource capability and investment is going to waste. Should Company A decide to add another server, they would incur an additional setup fee and more ongoing power, space and connectivity costs.

 

Virtualised Infrastructure
Company A has decided to switch from multiple physical servers to Claranet’s Managed Hypervisor.

Managed Hypervisor, vitualisation diagram

Company A's applications are now on one piece of hardware, meaning their resources are fully optimised and power, space and connectivity costs are reduced.

 

What's included?

Claranet's Managed Hypervisor service includes the following:

Managed Hypervisor

  • Monitoring of the Managed Hypervisor and the virtual machines
  • A rapid support response 24 hours a day 365 days a year should the Managed Hypervisor or a Virtual Machine fail
  • Critical patching of both the Managed Hypervisor and the virtual machines
  • A dedicated high specification Dell server, with all resources dedicated to only your applications
  • A guaranteed 1 hour hardware time to fix, with credits paid half-hourly should we fail
  • A guarantee of network connectivity up to 100%
  • Resilient data network - high speed, low latency and scalable
  • Purpose-built datacentres, with onsite 24 hour support 365 days a year  

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