The Benefit of Virtual Managed Hosting

Ultimate flexibility and redundancy at a fraction of the cost and overhead.

With Virtual Managed Hosting, you can snapshot the system, do testing, development, or destructive changes and simply revert back to the snapshot to quickly and easily restore your system. You can take a snapshot of your production environment, duplicate it and perform destructive testing against it without affecting your production environment. You can power cycle and reset the virtual machine at will.

Additionally, with Virtual Managed Hosting, a virtual machine can be simply moved to another server for load balancing or maintenance.

Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.

Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.

Partitioning

• Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system
• Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture
• Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner

Isolation

• Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected
• Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections

Encapsulation

• Complete virtual machine environment is saved as a single file; easy to back up, move and copy
• Standardized virtualized hardware is presented to the application, guaranteeing compatibility and reliability