HP & VMware Cloud Hosting
What is Cloud Hosting?
In simple terms, Cloud Hosting is a collection of pooled computing resources in the form of servers, CPUs, disk space and memory; each made available to any hosting solution in minutes.
VMware, the industry's premier virtualisation tool, allows us to manage and assign the Cloud's resources to our clients, enabling them to dynamically scale their hosting solution in order to meet specific demands.
Think of Cloud Hosting as a traditional dedicated server but with far more resources available, offering superior performance, better reliability and increased scalability. Clients still enjoy full root access to the server and their own chosen dedicated operating system, but also take advantage of the numerous features and benefits of the Cloud.
Due to the way our platform is configured, each server has full access to the Cloud's resources and is not throttled or restricted in any way; regardless of the activities of other servers on the platform.
What type of Cloud Hosting does Hyve provide?
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.
Genuine 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.
What are the key benefits of our HP & VMware
Genuine Cloud Hosting?
Scalable
One of the key benefits specifically attributed to our genuine Cloud Hosting platform is the ability to offer unprecedented levels of scalability. The Cloud has virtually unlimited resources that can be applied to any hosting solution in just minutes.
- Quickly change server resources such as CPUs, Memory & Disk Space.
- We can upgrade hardware resources with a single reboot of the guest OS.
Reliable & Fully Redundant
Our Cloud Hosting platform offers levels of reliability and redundancy that are simply not possible with a physical dedicated server or standard VPS (Virtual Private Server).
- The Blade enclosure has 4x 1GbE internet uplinks for redundancy and capacity.
- Each Blade has at least 4x fibre optic links to the disk arrays via 2x independent fibre controllers (a redundant pair).
- Every Blade benefits from 4x separate power supplies per enclosure.
- Every Blade benefits from multiple enclosure fans. If one fan fails the others increase their speed to offset the loss.
- The Blade servers operate in HA mode (High Availability). Servers can instantly migrate between Blades in the event of a hardware failure making it virtually impossible to have an outage.
- Each external disk array is equipped with 2x dedicated disk controllers.
High Performance
Due to the configuration of our genuine Cloud Hosting platform, each hosting solution benefits from the latest technology.
- Minimum of 16x Fibre Channel disk groups all working in parallel serving data.
- Disks are connected via Fibre Optic cable (light speed) rather than Serial.
- Server to server communication is much faster. Blades are interconnected via Backplane technology, not Ethernet.
- State-of-the-art CPU and Memory is installed in every Blade. Blades are brand new servers; they are equipped with very fast CPUs and memory.
- Blades use LS technology (Load Sharing). This enables each Blade to utilise another Blade's CPU resources if permitted. This is purely for traffic peaks and spikes. LS is only activated if requested and will not affect other Blades because it will only utilise resources from Blades that are underutilised.
Secure
Security of data is an ever more prominent concern. With more confidential files being hosted than ever before, we have designed our Cloud platform with the very highest levels of security possible.
- Cisco Firewalls
- Intrusion Detection Services
- Intrusion Prevention Services
- VPN
- Anti-virus
- DDoS Protection Services
- Secure FTP Services
Green
Protecting the environment is becoming an ever more important factor in the choice of hardware and hosting facilities. Our Cloud platform enables us to consolidate hardware, connections and power units. As a result, we consume far less power reducing our carbon footprint.
- Power supplies are consolidated into fewer physical connections. Each enclosure uses 4 connection for 16 servers (4x less than traditional physical servers)
- Blade servers and fibre channel disks are physically smaller, more energy efficient and are mounted vertically to save space, reducing our data centre footprint. This in turn, reduces power requirements and carbon output.
- Energy is saved as less power is required for running air conditioning units and cooling fans.
- Fewer switches and routers are required to connect the hardware.
Features & key benefits of Hyve HP & VMware
Genuine Cloud Hosting
- Total flexibility allowing Customers to upgrade and downgrade hardware resources such as CPU, disk space and Ram easily at anytime
- Fibre Attached 15000RPM Fibre Channel Hard disks in RAID configuration for ultimate performance and reliability
- Fully redundant servers; in the unlikely event of a failure, our High Availability (HA) restore feature enables servers to be restored on another Blade machine in a matter of minutes
- Genuine, purpose-built HP & Cisco Branded Hardware
- Optional Managed Data Backup & Restoration Services with 7 day retention
- Fully Managed Private or shared Firewall Protection for Enhanced Security
- Expert UK Support team with Development Assistance
- UK Based Sales & Support Help Desks
- Technical Accounts Managers (TAMs)
- Guaranteed 100% Network Uptime - NSPOF Network
- Unrestricted Bandwidth @ 1000mbps (1 GbE) Network Connections
- Multiple Tier-1 bandwidth providers
- Extensive Inclusive Monitoring Services
- Full DNS Management Services
- Free Website Migration & Set-up
- World Class Data centres
- Optimised Resource Usage
- Professional Business Hosting
- Optional Patch Management or full server management
- Webmin or Plesk control panel
- More energy efficient than normal servers
An HP BladeSystem c7000 with powerful Blade Servers installed.
These enclosures are connected via Fibre Optics to HP EVA 4400 enclosures (see below).
An HP EVA 4400 with 2 disk controllers housed in the top unit and multiple Fibre Channel (FC) Disks installed beneath (FC disks are currently the fastest available on the market).
These enclosures are connected via Fibre Optics to HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures (see above).
