Business · Virtualization
VMware and Hyper-V virtualization
Design through migration, with clusters sized to survive losing a node on a Tuesday afternoon — not just to run when everything is healthy.
What this covers
- VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V design, build and migration
- Host sizing against real workload data rather than a vendor worksheet
- Physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migrations, including platform changes
- Shared storage design so the cluster can actually fail over — see SAN and NAS
- Windows Server builds, Active Directory and domain services
- Consolidation of aging physical servers onto hardware you can still buy parts for
The part most quotes leave out
A two-host cluster with no shared storage is not high availability, and a cluster sized so that one host running alone is at ninety percent capacity will fall over the moment it has to. Sizing for the failure case rather than the happy case costs a little more up front and is the entire reason to virtualize.
Projects this covers
- Multi-host VMware clusters with vMotion and DRS
- Hyper-V failover clusters on Windows Server
- SQL Server Always On availability groups across hosts
- Physical-to-virtual consolidation of aging servers
- Host refresh with workloads migrated live, no outage window
- Test and staging environments cloned from production
Not sure where to start?
Describe what is happening, or what you are planning. Estimates are free and the first conversation is with the engineer who would do the work — not a salesperson working from a script.
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