Alienstech Virtualization
VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox environments sized properly, backed up properly, and documented so they can be rebuilt.
Running several servers on one host saves money and makes recovery far easier, provided the host is sized for the load and the backups understand virtual machines.
Where it goes wrong is concentration. Everything now depends on one piece of hardware, and if that hardware has no warranty, no monitoring and no tested restore, the saving turns into a risk.
Sound familiar?
- Every server runs on one host with no warranty coverage
- Storage was undersized and is now nearly full
- Backups run against the host but have never been restored
- Licensing changes have made the current platform expensive
- Nobody documented how the environment is put together
- Snapshots were left in place for months and are now a problem
How Alienstech handles it
The platform is chosen to fit the business rather than out of habit. VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox each make sense in different situations, and licensing cost is now a real part of that decision.
Hosts are sized for processor, memory and storage with headroom, and storage is planned so performance does not fall off as it fills. Backups are configured to understand virtual machines, and restores are tested rather than assumed.
Everything is documented: which machines run where, what depends on what, how the storage is laid out, and the order to bring things back in after an outage. That order matters more than most people expect.
What you get
- Recovery measured in hours rather than days
- Hardware consolidated without concentrating the risk
- Storage with room to grow
- Backups that restore a whole machine, tested
- A documented startup order for after an outage