Virtual Managed Hosting
Our Virtual Managed Hosting product includes all the feature and benefits of our Dedicated Managed Hosting but with all the benefits of Virtualization.
For a business, Virtualization will allow your virtual server to operate just as if it were on a dedicated hardware platform but at a better price point. This virtual server is your business’s server. Using snapshots, point-in-time backups of your virtual machine can happen very quickly for system recovery should it be necessary. And you still have all of the benefits of a Dedicated Managed Hosting solution including which operating system you choose to run.
For an IT, Database, or Programming department or other technical staff, our Virtualization product provides you with an excellent platform on which to develop, test, and experiment without the need of a dedicated hardware platform.
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.
Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save, copy and provision a virtual machine. Full systems (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved, within seconds, from one physical server to another for zero-downtime maintenance and continuous workload consolidation.
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