Transform IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization

“The fact that VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) allows us to aggregate multiple physical servers into one dynamic resource pool has been quite helpful. Through grouping servers with high hardware demands into defined resource pools, we are able to sustain higher numbers of virtual machines within the same cluster. This eliminates the need for additional infrastructure and helps drugstore.com save money.

Using VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to create rules for automatic resource allocation and optimization has helped us alleviate administrative overhead for our operations team. Today, we have over 200 virtual machines supporting our SDLC process. If we had to manage this many servers manually, we would certainly require more operational staff. So, VI3 not only helps my team save money on hardware and personnel, but also time.”

"VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), including the maintenance mode feature for hosts, is one of the biggest, if not the biggest advantage of VMware Infrastructure 3. For Eastman Chemical Company, DRS has made maintenance of VMware ESX faster, easier, and more flexible. If we need to perform maintenance on a server, we can just right-click on it in the VI client, put it in maintenance mode, and DRS moves all of its virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster without any impact to the end user.  Our window for maintenance is now any time we choose since the applications and services for our Eastman clients remain available throughout the maintenance."

“By using VMware Infrastructure in our disaster recovery plans, we've been able to reduce the time that it takes to recover our critical systems by 50 percent."

“For my four-host cluster in production, I’m using Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in fully-automated mode to automatically load-balance virtual machines. I am also using maintenance mode to perform maintenance or change configurations of the hardware hosts, all without downtime for my end users.”

“Since our upgrade to VMware Infrastructure 3, we have noticed that virtual machines are much more efficient and use less host resources.  I also love the ability to convert back and forth from templates to virtual machines.  This allows us to test and deploy virtual machines a lot faster, and to easily perform cold migration of virtual machines.”

“We have been using VMware ESX for more than a year in production and recently upgraded to VMware Infrastructure 3, including the new products Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High Availability (HA). Our infrastructure requirements are growing—at the end of this year, we will start building two new data centers for disaster recovery and business continuity reasons. These new capabilities in VMware Infrastructure 3 allow us to automate capacity management while at the same time increasing service levels. Therefore, VMware infrastructure is at the core of our strategy of providing the next-generation flexible infrastructure at our clinic that fulfills our service-level agreements with minimal administrative effort.”