COAL IT helps businesses with scalability, security and management of their IT infrastructure.
As a Platespin and EqualLogic partner and a VMware Authorised Consultancy (VAC) COAL IT will enable you to leverage virtual infrastructure and Blade and SAN technology to deliver greater IT resource utilisation and flexibility. Whether you are looking to consolidate your data centre, create a test / development environment or provide affordable business continuity, we will provide you with the knowledge to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your IT operations.

COAL IT has a demo lab running all the advanced features of Virtual Infrastructure 3 including vMotion, High Availability(HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler(DRS). The lab can be used for any Proof of Concept testing required.  

Consolidation Assessment

The key to a successful virtualisation project is effective planning. COAL IT is certified to perform Capacity Planning Assessments using market leading tools from Platespin and VMware. The assessment monitors your server workloads over a period of time capturing hardware and software inventory and performance metrics important to providing a clear virtualisation solution. Various modelling scenarios are then produced to provide scenarios on different hardware platforms and illustrate how the physical workloads will perform in a virtual environment.

Physical to Virtual (P2V)

COAL IT has considerable experience in using a number of different tools to provide P2V migrations. COAL IT will help plan and schedule the migration of mission critical servers into the virtual environment with minimal downtime. We can then automate migrations of data, applications and operating systems by streaming servers between physical machines, blade infrastructures, virtual machines and image archives over the network.
 

Storage, Blade and Clustering technology

We can help you design and implement your SAN, Blade or Microsoft Clustering solution. We have extensive experience of both Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN solutions and can help you select the most appropriate equipment for your organisations requirements.