Virtualisation
Consolidate ageing physical servers into virtual machines — less hardware, faster recovery, easier change.
Virtualisation runs several independent servers on shared physical hardware. Asptech designs, migrates and manages virtualised environments for UK businesses, on our infrastructure or on yours.
A rack of half-idle physical servers is expensive in every direction — power, cooling, space, licensing, and the maintenance of machines that will eventually fail one at a time. Virtualisation consolidates them onto fewer, better-used hosts.
We handle the design, the migration from physical to virtual, and the ongoing management — including the part people underestimate, which is sizing the hosts so that consolidation does not simply relocate the bottleneck.
What it includes
Design and sizing
Host specification based on real workload measurements rather than optimistic estimates.
Physical to virtual migration
Moving existing servers into virtual machines with minimal downtime.
Snapshots and rollback
Take a restore point before every risky change and undo it in seconds if needed.
Ongoing management
Patching, capacity monitoring, backups and support for the whole environment.
Common questions
- Will our applications run virtualised?
- Almost all do. The exceptions are usually applications tied to specific physical hardware, which we identify during the audit before anything moves.
- Does it have to be on your infrastructure?
- No. We design and manage virtualised environments on hardware in your own premises just as readily.
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Reliable UK hosting for websites, applications, virtual machines, data and equipment — on our own infrastructure.
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Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 set up, migrated, secured and supported — including the security settings most tenants never turn on.
Interested? Give us a call.
A question, a project or just support — reach the team on 0845 222 0100, or email sales@asptech.co.uk for new business and support@asptech.co.uk for help.