ViFX offers the industry’s most advanced portfolio of Virtualisation Services, covering Server, Storage, Desktop, and Application Virtualisation. Regardless of where you are on your Virtualisation “journey”, ViFX is able to recommend and deliver exactly the Services required to help you achieve your Virtualisation objectives.

Whether you are just embarking on your first Virtualisation initiatives, or already in a relative advanced state, it is critical to develop a Virtualisation Strategy, supporting Investment Analysis, and Business Case aligning Business and IT and providing the organisation with a roadmap to success. The Virtualisation Strategy documents your Virtualisation and Consolidation opportunities, what Business and Financial benefits you can expect to achieve, and in what timeframes.

ViFX Virtualisation Strategy & Business Case Development Services assists you with these tasks, by conducting a series of workshops, performing the necessary research, and providing the investment/business case collateral to support your investment decision making. As a result, you are able to select the exact areas where deploying Virtualisation technologies will have the greatest impact on your Business.

The next step in your journey is to more precisely quantify where, when, and how Virtualisation technologies will be deployed within your environment, based upon a detailed understanding of your current state, and the advice and guidance of experienced ViFX Consultants who have performed hundred’s of Virtualisation exercises for our clients.

The ViFX Server, Desktop, and Application Assessment Services assess your current environment to precisely quantify the expected costs and investment returns of implementing virtualisation, as well as preparing you to move to the Implementation phase. For Server Virtualisation, your ViFX Assessment Services include up to 30 days of Server inventory and performance data collection and analysis. For Desktop Virtualisation, the Assessment Services include a detailed study of existing Desktop physical assets, management policies, and cost of ownership. For Application Virtualisation, a comprehensive inventory of applications is gathered and studied to identify virtualisation opportunities.

All Assessments include a series of stakeholder interviews (Business, Financial, IT), a ViFX Assessment & Findings report, complete TCO/ROI analysis, and presentation back to all client stakeholders. This provides the baseline against which the success of your virtualisation efforts can be measured later.

Larger Enterprises, Service Providers, and Public Sector organisations are likely to have built up a substantial base of IT assets acquired over a period of many years. These organisations require an over-arching enterprise-wide strategy whose goal is to identify and quantify organisation-wide Virtualisation and Consolidation opportunities and benefits.

For these customers, ViFX uniquely offers the Enterprise Server & Storage Reference Architecture (ESRA) Service. ESRA consolidates, defines, and documents an overall framework and design guiding the evolution of the entire organisation’s IT environment, identifying all available opportunities for Virtualisation and Consolidation. Depending up the circumstances ESRA is likely to include all Servers, Storage, and Networks spanning multiple sites, plus the organisation’s Distributed Processing & Disaster Recovery strategies.

ESRA provides the centralized, agreed, and documented roadmap allowing large organisations to maximize the benefits of Virtualisation and Consolidation across their entire IT estate.

Naturally, achieving all the identified benefits of Virtualisation and Consolidation across your IT environment requires deep expertise, extensive experience, and flawless execution capabilities. Nowhere is this more critical than in the Planning, Design, Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Migration, Delivery, and Handover of your virtualized estate. This is where the benefits of partnering with ViFX can really be felt.

ViFX competencies span all key aspects of IT infrastructure, including Servers, Storage, Networks, Backup & Recovery, Desktops, Applications, BC/DR, and more. ViFX are uniquely able to craft and deliver highly optimized virtualized environments that fulfill all of the original objectives of your virtualisation exercise. ViFX experienced talent pool, combined with our methodology that leverages both VMware and industry best practices, ensures professional, on-time delivery of a quality solution in every engagement.

Now that the base Virtual Infrastructure is in place, there are many opportunities to further optimize and automate operations, leading to improved system and application performance, availability, and security.

ViFX are experienced practitioners in the implementation of advanced VMware management and optimisation tools and capabilities, including:

• Virtual Environment Monitoring
• High Availability & Fault Tolerance
• Advanced Storage Integration Facilities
• Advanced Security Implementation
• Backup & Recovery Tools
• Capacity Planning Tools
• Application Performance Management Tools
• Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management Tools
• Test & Development Environment Automation
• Disaster Recovery Site Automation

The reality is many organisations who have already embarked on their Virtualisation journey have not achieved all the Business, Financial, and Technical Benefits that the technology offers. Many organisations are just building the confidence and cross-functional competencies required to ensure your Virtual Infrastructure is deployed and running optimally.

ViFX stands beside you providing independent review, objective measurement, expert advice, and where required a detailed analysis & audit of your virtualisation projects. Then optionally we can perform full remediation of identified problems and sub-optimalities bringing the environment to an optimized-state.

The implementation of Virtualization technology or Cloud within your IT environment will dramatically impact existing Operational Policies & Procedures. For example, traditional Server provisioning involves raising budget approval, procurement, Server stand-up, Storage allocation, OS and Application installation, etc. before being available to the requester. In a virtualized estate, Server Provisioning  consists of a series of automated steps that perform most actions automatically using virtual elements, reducing or eliminating many steps entirely.

ViFX Operational Readiness Assessment Service looks at your entire body of IT policies & procedures, making recommendations based upon experience and best practices, and enabling you to realize the full benefits of your virtualization investment.

Consolidating and migrating entire Data Centres are major undertakings that require a unique combination of multi-vendor skillets, deep experience, and battle-tested consultants and engineers. ViFX is uniquely qualified to be your partner for Data Centre Consolidation & Migration projects as our range of competencies allows us to identify and exploit Virtualization, Cloud, & Storage optimizations during the Migration Planning, Design, & Implementation process, cutting costs, minimizing risks, and accelerating the migration itself. ViFX are able to lead entire Data Centre projects from end-to-end including overall Project Management, or assist on a more tactical basis where required.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions are traditionally costly, complex to deploy, and can be unreliable in the event of an actual disaster. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) delivers automated, reliable, and manageable Disaster Recovery capabilities to VMware virtualized infrastructure, at a fraction of the cost and complexity of previous approaches. ViFX are the experts in SRM implementation. We are able to build complete Disaster Recovery capabilities into our Server, Desktop, and Private Cloud solutions, as well as add these capabilities to your existing VMware virtualized infrastructure.

While still in the early stages of market development, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) adoption is poised to explode in the next few years. The technologies have matured to the point where virtual desktops can be provided to users across corporate networks, WANs, and high-speed wireless networks, and support a variety of devices including PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. ViFX delivers complete VMware-based Virtual Desktop projects from Assessment to Architecture to Planning & Design, Piloting, and Deployment into Production.

One of the major challenges facing IT departments is the need to upgrade existing platforms to modern OS and middleware technologies, while preserving the correct behavior of applications. Application Virtualization capabilities such as provided by VMware’s ThinApp products enable earlier versions of applications to be ported to modern OS such as Windows 7 with no recoding required. ViFX delivers Application Virtualization services that enable our clients to proceed confidently and safely with Windows 7 and Windows Server upgrades.

From development, testing and QA, through to integration, staging, deployment and management, virtualization offers a comprehensive framework for software lifecycle automation that streamlines critically Test & Development processes. ViFX works with internal development teams to implement best-practices in a virtualized environment, shortening development cycles, speeding time to deployment, reducing cost and improving quality.

Once the Planning & Design phases are complete, a substantial amount of work remains to migrate (or convert) physical machines to virtual machines consolidated onto Virtual Infrastructure hosts. The migration process can be challenging owing to the variety of applications which must be migrated, application-to-application dependencies, and virtual machine limitations relative to physical machines. ViFX is able to supply a team of skilled, experienced Engineers to work alongside you who understand these challenges and reduce the risk of delays or complications while accelerating completion of P2V processes.

Our experience in delivering large scale server consolidation projects has allowed ViFX to refine the volume P2V process and project methodology where we can offer customers a packaged volume-based service at a fixed fee per P2V migration.

End-to-end P2V migration services including planning, execution, enterprise communications and project management.

We aim to deliver incremental cost savings over traditional P2V migration methods and to accelerate of your virtualisation deployment and thus get savings and other benefits realised asap.

Virtual Infrastructure technologies are in a state of rapid technical evolution. A major release upgrade is a substantial project and may involve multiple considerations which are unfamiliar or unknown when confronting new releases for the first time. ViFX virtual Infrastructure Upgrade Services will guide you through every step of the upgrade process, ensuring a successful and optimized outcome.

ViFX offers clients a suite of customizable quarterly and annual Managed Services offerings with pricing based upon your specific need for assistance. Services may be optionally provided by Telephone, via Remote Access, or On-Site, and may encompass anything from troubleshooting issues in your virtual environment, proactive monitoring and period Health Checks, to full Managed Services where ViFX provides a turnkey managed solution. Each Managed Services engagement is governed by an agreed, customized set of objectives, tasks, and commitments.

The ViFX Benefits Realization workshop and reporting service ensures that your Virtualization, Cloud, and Storage projects and the resulting benefits are quantified, documented, and compared back to your initial objectives. Gap analysis is performed where applicable and strategies identified to remediate them which optionally can be subsequently implemented.

Many organisations are building confidence and competence in this critical new area. ViFX will stand beside a customer or outsourcer organisation, to provide independent review, objective measurement, expert advice and, if required, a detailed analysis and audit of virtualisation project(s).

Business requirements, and therefore your virtual infrastructure, are changing and fluid. ViFX is able to perform periodic health checks, providing a snapshot of your infrastructure health and hygiene, along with either remedial services or a set of recommendations as appropriate.

Pragmatic project management is a function which is key to the success of virtualisation and/or storage projects. As part of our overall quality assurance program and to ensure milestones, deliverables and outcomes, ViFX integrates an appropriate level of Project Management into each of its project engagements.

Many customers neglect to maintain their environment’s “as-built” documentation. Current and up to date “as-built” documentation is an important intelligence file for strategic and tactical planning and risk mitigation.

As either a custom assignment, or as part of a project, ViFX can update your “as-built” documentation (including network and infrastructure diagrams).

Your organisation has probably invested in a sophisticated, flexible and highly functional virtualised infrastructure / environment. It is critical that this environment is managed and supported in order to maintain optimal operational health and efficiency and to minimise the cost and business impact of any interruption to the production services. ViFX offers 24x7 remote support services to provide crisis support and scheduled routine maintenence.

Your ViFX Technical Account Manager offers expertise, access, and commitment to help maximise your investment in VMware. The TAM leverages proven methodologies and serves as a technology advocate and an enabler to guide you in best practices, facilitate progress, and accelerate toward your goals.

The ViFX TAM is your trusted advisor who assesses your existing infrastructure, reviews the implementation plans for best practices, makes recommendations in line with your unique requirements and addresses technical or business hurdles. ViFX conveniently provides TAM expert services on either a program-of-work basis or on a term-residency basis.

ViFX offers customers assistance to develop their business case for virtualisation and storage investments. Our experience across many customers allows us to add the value of that experience to help new customers develop their business cases or add to their business case with supporting intelligence.

ViFX uses its commercial consultants and management to facilitate these services. The program of work can involve stakeholder surveys / interviews / workshops, analysis and report preparation.

ViFX offers customers hands-on, environment-specific training aimed at adding value by building your IT staff’s confidence and capabilities to effectively and efficiently run and manage your new virtualised and/or storage infrastructure.

Training is one of the key elements which helps maximise the technology’s return on investment. We believe that training is an important investment which encourages the adoption of new technology and adds value by improving employee productivity and accelerating the benefits.

Beyond skill development, we target our training toward practically supporting your ICT organisation’s real-world processes and procedures.