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Virtualization: Overview

Advantages

  • Automated delivery of IT infrastructure for the rapid scaling of solutions
  • Best-practice OS builds and patching
  • Private-network connectivity, ideal for hypervisor management
  • Network storage based on iSCSI SAN and NAS for virtual machine storage to enable high-end virtualization features
  • Virtual Private Racks to allow integrated network performance

With the speed of business today, your enterprise needs a high level of scalability without compromising stability, cost, or efficiency. So we provide the technology and services you need for employing virtualization within a dedicated environment to create a private solution that optimizes your technology resources and costs and achieves unprecedented utilization rates.

SoftLayer’s proprietary architecture and automated platform give us uncommon advantages as well as the proven level of performance and reliability required for enterprise-class virtualization. Virtual machines running on a SoftLayer dedicated server seamlessly integrate with the rest of your environment, including dedicated servers and CloudLayer® Computing instances, all managed through the same Customer Portal and API.

Benefits of Virtualization:

  • Hardware consolidation reduces capital expenditures and energy costs
  • Standardization of operating systems reduces errors
  • Rapid provisioning improves time-to-market
  • Automation reduces staffing costs
  • Physical servers are made more interchangeable
  • Portability improves availability, recovery, and flexibility

Ideal For:

  • Private cloud
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Maintenance window and load balancing
  • Abstraction layer
  • Virtual labs (development, testing)
  • Patching
  • Security
  • Thin client

SoftLayer Virtualization Flow

SoftLayer Virtualization Flow

For more information on virtualization, see our Virtualization FAQ.


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