Virtualization Services in Oxford & London
Save Space, Cut Costs & Improve IT Efficiency with Virtualization
Running multiple physical servers or workstations? It’s time to simplify. At Network Assistance, we help businesses across Oxford and London reduce hardware, energy use, and IT complexity with tailored virtualization solutions.
Whether you want to consolidate servers, enable remote desktops, or build a scalable test environment, our virtualization services give you more power, more control, and lower costs.
What Is Virtualization?
Virtualization lets you run multiple operating systems or environments on a single physical server. This means you can host several virtual machines (VMs) on fewer devices—reducing costs, streamlining management, and improving redundancy.
From on-site hypervisors to full cloud-based virtual environments, we design the right setup for your needs.
Our Virtualization Services
Server Virtualization
We consolidate multiple physical servers into a central virtual environment using VMware or Hyper-V — simplifying your infrastructure and reducing hardware costs.
Desktop Virtualization (VDI)
Deliver full Windows desktop environments to users via secure, hosted virtual machines — ideal for remote workers and secure access control.
Hybrid Cloud Integration
We bridge on-premise and cloud-based virtual machines, giving you flexibility and scalability while keeping critical workloads local.
Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migrations
We safely migrate your existing servers or systems to virtual machines, preserving all data, configurations, and software.
Test & Development Environments
Create safe, isolated virtual labs to test new software, patch deployments, or system changes—without risking your live environment.
High Availability & Failover
Set up resilient virtual systems that automatically recover from hardware failures or performance dips—ensuring business continuity.
Virtual Server Solutions
In a virtualized environment, you can reduce the amount of servers required – a virtual system allows you to share the physical resources of multiple machines across the entire infrastructure. Applications can then access the shared resources as and when required, resulting in a more efficient system and lower costs.
An example of a typical virtualized environment might see three physical hosts connected to a shared storage device. These hosts provide the processing and memory capacity whilst all data relating to virtual servers is stored on the Storage Area Network.
The virtual infrastructure provides far greater flexibility and extremely high availability from a simpler hardware model with fewer things to go wrong.
A key benefit is that the entire network infrastructure becomes portable – this makes disaster recovery far quicker and more effective.
Ready to Simplify Your IT with Virtualization?
Modernize your infrastructure, reduce costs, and increase flexibility with tailored virtualization services from Network Assistance.
Virtualization
Virtualization Key Benefits
High Availability
Virtual machines can be moved to an alternative host in minutes. An entire virtual server can be restored with the ease with which you would use Shadow Copies to restore a previous file version. This ensures no more downtime incidents caused by issues such as severe blue screen Windows failures.
Lower Cost of Ownership
As virtualization requires less hardware than the traditional approach, the hardware costs are lower.
Virtualization also results in a far lower exposure to hardware failures (keeping ongoing costs low) and future expansion is significantly more cost-effective.
Technology Testing
For testing purposes you can have server templates so that you can safely run your own test lab on the same physical hardware. For example, if you wished to test a new accounting package or database, you would simply create a new virtual server and invite a select group of users to test it.
Disaster Recovery
Planning for the worst is something which all businesses need to consider. Should you be unable to operate from your site, the virtual infrastructure is fully portable and can quickly be set up in our data local centre. Backups of the virtual images will mean that your systems are available within an hour or two, allowing your business to remain functional.
Flexibility
You can run as many virtual servers as your host and SAN capacity allows. If you need to expand your capacity, simply add another host which would be able to run another four or more servers (assuming typical loads).
Increasing memory or processing capacity is straightforward and cost-free – simply shut down the virtual machine, assign more memory or processing power from the shared resource pool and restart the virtual machine.