Some of the servers installed in the Data Processing Center of CK UZ form a virtual environment within which virtual servers and workstations are run. With virtualization, it is possible to create a separate layer of computer hardware, allowing physical resources such as processors, operating memory, storage, etc. to be divided and assigned to individual servers/virtual machines (VMs). Each VM is equipped with its own operating system (OS) and operates as an independent device, although in practice it uses only a certain portion of the underlying computer hardware. In practice, virtualization allows multiple virtual machines (so-called virtual servers) to run on a single physical server, which brings such benefits as optimal use of hardware resources, easier management (making the VM independent of the hardware, which allows migration, i.e. moving VMs between physical servers; the ability to differentiate VMs in terms of power, faster provisioning of new servers; minimizing downtime), cost reduction, including power and cooling costs, saving space in the server room, etc.

The installed environment runs a virtual workstation infrastructure (VDI), which allows you to create workstations in virtual machines and hand them over to users who log into them using client terminals. Thanks to the VDI infrastructure, we provide users with access to various operating systems and applications via a terminal (or any other device), without having to install these systems on local devices/computers.

Currently, the UZ CK Data Processing Center operates a virtualization environment consisting of a dozen physical servers (so-called hypervisors), whose total computing power is based on about 600 computing cores, 8TB of RAM and 1 PB (petabyte) of disk space. About 400 virtual machines are running within this environment.