Virtualisation
andersenIT are specialists in virtualisation solutions providing consulting, project and managed services for your virtualisation environment. We offer tailored solutions and advanced support for:VMware, Hyper-V, AIX PowerVM, Xen, VDI, VXRail, VSAN, SimpliVity, Nutanix
Consulting Services:
andersenIT provides the following consulting services:
- Options analysis of in house, outsourced and cloud solutions
- Review of system configurations with recommendations for optimisation
- Identification and remediation of performance issues
- Licensing model reviews and selection
- Server consolidation
- Version upgrades and patching updates
- System usage analysis
- Independent design reviews
- Design and implementation of disaster recovery and high availability solutions
- Migrations from physical to virtual and from virtual to virtual
Project Services:
andersenIT provides a full suite of storage project services including:
- Architecture design
- Hardware recommendations
- Vendor management and filtering
- Commercial advice
- Migrations between platforms and to cloud service providers
- Virtualisation builds and upgrades
- End to end project management and project administration services
- Business case development
andersenIT also offer a full suite of managed services for your virtualisation platform.
Our consultants have experience in dealing with complex configurations and the experience to tackle the tricky issues that don’t commonly arise. We can help you get the most out of your current environment and ensure it is running optimally. Our consultants can deliver the exact support you need, exactly when you need it and for as long as you need it.
andersenIT offers a full range of managed services including:
- Active system based monitoring with alerting to provide surety that your storage systems will continue to be available
- Daily checks by experienced engineers
- 24/7 on-call support backed with a team of highly skilled engineers
- Regular health checks to keep your system optimised which include:
- Detailed technical analysis of VMware, Hyper-V and PowerVM environments
- Review of host servers and associated guest machines
- Review of management servers for best practice configuration and performance
- Review of high availability configurations
- Review of disaster recovery capability and readiness
- Recommendations for patching, issue remediation, performance improvements and upgrades
- Review of system logs
- Routine system maintenance including:
- Patch and service pack updates
- Preventative maintenance
- Host capacity management and forecasting
- Performance reviews and tune-up advice
- Installation and configuration of backup and recovery software
- Backup and recovery testing
- Redundancy and availability testing
- Licensing compliance reviews
- vCentre database backups
- BAU Support including:
- Level 3 troubleshooting
- Incident management and resolution
- User and security management
- Virtual host setup and configuration
- Configuration of alarms for warning and critical events
- Management of snapshots
- Capacity management and forecasting
- Expert advice
- Vendor liaison and management
- Fast response disaster recovery assistance
