Suitable Platform

Suitable Platform

DataSecure Ltd. faces challenges such as high maintenance costs, limited scalability, underutilisation of resources, disaster recovery concerns, security and compliance risks. Given these challenges the best way to improve efficiency and reduce costs is to go for Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization program.

WHY?
Microsoft Hyper-V is included at no extra cost when paired with windows server, reducing high costs. There will be no need to pay for separate hypervisor license and the cost of ownership is way less like with VMware vSphere which would increase the businesses operational costs. Good to use for future expansion without having to buy new hardware immediately. Allows multiple workloads such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, CRM onto fewer physical servers using VM management.

High performance virtual machines are easy to manage if the host machine runs them (VirtualBox vs Hyper-V, 2021). It is safe to use as makes sure all the virtual machines are shielded and encrypted. Providing dynamic memory and smart solutions that help with balancing the workload automatically (Zhou.J, 2020).

Hyper-V has great scalability with a maximum of 1024 Virtual Machines per host, and 64 Hosts per Cluster & 8000 Virtual Machines. Supports 64 virtual processors per virtual machine. And 1TB RAM per virtual machine on Windows Server Datacenter edition. Built in data recovery and backup. Integrated with Windows Backup and a snapshot functionality that allows for rollback after any issues occur that need to be reverted. 

Unfortunately, Oracle VirtualBox is free but unfortunately it is not designed to be used by a large corporation, but suitable for single and personal use. VMware vSphere has a high cost and not easily integrate to get up and running unlike Microsoft Hyper-V that is integrated with many windows functionalities.

Microsoft Hyper-V is Cost effective, has high performance, scalable, secure with good data recovery options and snapshots.