VMware ESXi
The enterprise standard: mature tooling, wide ecosystem and predictable support.
Virtualization
Fewer servers doing more work
Consolidate physical machines onto hypervisors that are properly sized, backed up and monitored — so virtualisation reduces cost instead of adding risk.
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Platforms
Platforms we deploy
We are not tied to one vendor — the right hypervisor depends on your budget, skills and support needs.
Proxmox VE
Open-source, cost-effective and easy to manage, with clustering built in.
Citrix XenServer
Strong workload management and scaling for consolidated environments.
KVM
High performance and fully open source, integrated with Linux.
Backup and DR integration
Hypervisor-aware backups and failover, so a host failure is survivable.
Management and monitoring
Capacity, performance and alerting across the whole estate from one place.
Before you consolidate
Do the maths first
Virtualisation fails when hosts are over-committed and nobody notices until month-end processing.
- Baseline what you actually use before buying anything
- Leave headroom for failover, not just steady state
- Plan storage IOPS, not just capacity
- Document the recovery path for every guest
Typical outcomes
Fewer physical machines to power, cool, patch and replace; faster recovery because a guest can be restored or moved rather than rebuilt; and a test environment that no longer requires a spare server.
Licensing costs vary by platform and core count — we set those out in the quote so there are no surprises.
Which hypervisor should we choose?
If your team already knows VMware and budget allows, stay there. For cost-sensitive sites with in-house Linux skills, Proxmox or KVM often wins.
Can you virtualise our existing physical servers?
Yes — a physical-to-virtual migration is usually straightforward, planned around a cutover window with a rollback path.
Will performance drop?
Not if the hosts are sized against measured utilisation with headroom. That is the part most projects get wrong.
Related
Often paired with
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