Engine Networks vCloud Hosting based on VMware vSphere is a reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure solution that ensures compatibility with internal VMware environments and with VMware Virtualized™ services worldwide.

On Demand
o   Create virtual machines as needed
o   Add capacity with the click of a button
o   vApp

Pay as you go
o   Pay only for what you use
o   Metered billing for network, CPU, RAM, storage & licensing

Compatible
o   Seamlessly upgrade your environment
o   Upload your own VMs

Engine Networks vCloud Hosting is specifically designed as an easy and affordable way to try a virtual cloud or host application.  This solution is perfectly suited for test and development or a startup environment. Developers are able to use the Engine Networks vCloud service to rapidly deploy application environments and get started quickly.  The Engine Networks vCloud service retains the robustness, interoperability and reliability that Engine Networks and VMware is known for while delivering the easy access and cost effectiveness of the pay as you go model.

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Not all Cloud hosting uses the same computing technology, resulting in dramatically varying levels of scalability, reliability and performance. Our HP & VMware Cloud hosting platform uses genuine, purpose-built HP Blade server technology coupled with VMware (the industry’s premier virtualisation software), to control server resources.

Hardware Configuration.
We utilise multiple HP Blade enclosures which contain up to 16 Blades per enclosure. HP Blades are servers that are mounted vertically which allows more units to fit into a smaller amount of data centre space, resulting in energy savings.

Our storage arrays employ fibre channel disks connected via fibre optics which are the fastest disks in the world today, and the best way to connect storage devices to Blade servers. Read/write bottlenecks encountered when using classic VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and physical dedicated servers are now a thing of the past.

Geniune Cloud Hosting
We have carefully selected this combination of technology and specific type and configuration of hardware because together, they provide scalability, reliability and performance above anything else available today. Many other hosting providers advertise their offering as Cloud but in reality, they provide single stand-alone servers which are virtualised. Our genuine Cloud Hosting platform simply cannot be bettered.

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Engine Networks uses VMware for its virtualization offerings and we thought it would be useful to share some stats on how much consolidation we see in the ‘real world’.

Bear in mind that our sales consultants and engineers tailor solutions primarily for web facing, intensive transactional web systems many with high traffic and peaking around events so what we see is quite different from what might be expected in a more ‘normal’ IT situation (if such a thing exists). We also deal with multiple environments for customers – live/production, pre-production/QA and test – each of which has a different profile.

We manage several hundred VMs today and the average consolidation varies enormously environment to environment. In test environments we see perhaps what you would expect, around 20 VMs per ESX. In pre-production/QA environments we are seeing 8 to 15 VMs per ESX and in live/production environments, the average drops to 5-12 VMs per ESX. This is because most customers see the high availability features of VM as most important in production environments, rather than straight cost savings (although 1:3 or 1:5 is already quite a good saving!). In these cases, a host must be able, at any moment, to handle all the Virtual Machines from another host that is experiencing failure.

Quite a range of results, isn’t it? It shows, to us at least, the need for specialist consultancy and experience to get the best out of your infrastructure. See here for more info.

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A marketing software as a service company needed a reliable, redundant infrastructure promising security and compliance for guaranteed uptime and compatibility. Engine Networks combined their platform with VMware vCloud, LeftHand SAN technology and HP Blades to create a cost effective, scalable, reliable and compliance solution with VPN to allow communication betweeb customers in-house servers and Engine Networks’ virtual cloud. Learn how Engine Networks built and public and private hybrid cloud solution that met Customers compliance and scale needs.

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