Physical, VPS and Virtualised VMware Based Hosting Comparison

Dedicated Hosting: a comparison of physical and virtual VPS / VMware based Hosting

Dedicated hosting home was in itself from the original sludge in the 90 years because of the millennium, and finally commoditising recent years.

The biggest change came Dedicated hosting just last year with the introduction of virtualized hosting, but more importantly, the introduction of VMware-based virtual dedicated.

The key point to note is that the effectiveness and properties of the following order is appropriate.

Best: VMware virtualizes based dedicated hosting

Second choice: the old physical Dedicated Hosting

The good: VPS (Virtual Private Server)

Before people jump up from his chair and began weeping and gnashing of teeth, I will explain and illustrate.

This table allows you to quickly and easily compare their needs against the advantages and disadvantages of the physical infrastructure and virtual dedicated hosting.

High Availability

Based on VMware Virtualized Dedicated Hosting: Yes High availability with automatic fail-built platform hardware in the VMware virtualized environment based on
Old-style accommodation dedicated physical: Available only on farms grouped

Managed Infrastructure

Based on VMware Virtualized Dedicated Hosting: Yes monitored hardware based virtualized infrastructure and managed by qualified engineers 24/7/365
Old-fashioned physical Hosting Dedicated optional and expensive
VPS: yes

Fast implementation

VMware Virtualized Hosting Dedicated-based: Yes Hours or days
Dedicated hosting old-style physical, weeks or months. Physical infrastructure must be specified, ordered and delivered
Yes, hours or days: VPS

Dedicated resources (CPU, RAM)

Based on VMware Virtualized Dedicated Hosting: Yes VMware Infrastructure 3 enables precise control and accurate allocation of resources to ensure that you get what you pay the minimum.
Old-fashioned physical Hosting Dedicated: Yes
VPS: no

Dedicated Power

VMware Virtualized Hosting Dedicated-based: Yes precise control of the resources of VMware Infrastructure 3 is a guarantee of its function is not affected by other customers are
Old-fashioned physical Hosting Dedicated: Yes
VPS: no resources are shared and customers can affect the performance of each.

Underlying the independence of the operating system

VMware Virtualized Hosting Dedicated-based: Yes, but only true virtualization, VMware Infrastructure 3 complete independence of the underlying operating system
Dedicated to the old physical hosting: No

VPS: No, there is always a relationship between the operating system and the underlying virtual machine.

Quick and painless migration current hosting environment

VMware virtualized based Hosting Dedicated: Speed and efficiency. P2V (physical virtualized) tools can be used to facilitate the migration process

Dedicated to the old physical hosting: They can not cloning, use P2V tool.
VPS: P2V possible with the same tools, but is not widely understood in services.

Updated CPU speed

VMware virtualized based Hosting Dedicated: Speed and efficiency.
Old-fashioned physical Dedicated hosting is not trivial. The parties need to request and install.
VPS update can be done if there is no control over the resources of oppression in the first place.

Upgrade RAM

VMware virtualized based Hosting Dedicated: Speed and efficiency.
Old-fashioned physical Dedicated hosting is not trivial. The parties need to request and install.
VPS update can be done if there is no control over the resources of oppression in the first place.

Upgrade HDD

VMware virtualized based Hosting Dedicated: Speed and efficiency.
Old-fashioned physical Dedicated hosting is not trivial. The parties need to request and install.
VPS: yes

Cloning

VMware virtualized based Hosting Dedicated: Speed and efficiency.
Old-fashioned physical Hosting Dedicated: Yes, but requires third-party tools.
VPS: yes