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Virtual Machine FAQ

What is the difference between VMWare Dedicated Servers and VPS or shared hosting?

Hosted VMware virtual machines are superior to shared hosting or a virtual private server (VPS) because they get their own dedicated operating system and are fully isolated from other virtual machines on the server hardware. As a result, customers no longer have to worry about having their hosted service overrun by another service on the same machine.

What are the benefits of a VMWare VPS over Dedicated Physical Server?

Hosted virtual machines deliver better availability than dedicated servers because they can be migrated from one server to another in real-time. Hosted virtual machines are also easier to scale without purchasing additional hardware. They are also more secure because each virtual machine is completely abstracted from the hardware and isolated from other virtual machines.

Disaster Recovery - A major benefit in moving to an Ipera Private Server (powered by VMWare) is disaster recovery, with virtual machines easily able to be moved between hardware nodes and rebuilt from backups in minutes or hours, not days. We can even replicate your existing production servers to a virtualised copy that can be brought up in the event of a disaster.

Rapid Deployment - We can provision and deploy your virtual server in minutes from pre-prepared images, there's no need to build a physical server and install software. It couldn't be easier. Resources (memory, disk space, performance) can be scaled up or down as your needs change.

Performance - Ipera's Private Servers are deployed on enterprise-grade hardware in our data centre with multi-level redundancy for high availability.

Cost Effective - Instead of purchasing and continually upgrading expensive server hardware, Ipera's Private Server's are available for a fixed monthly fee with optional rental of Microsoft software. You're relieved from capital expenditure and can upgrade and downgrade on demand.