Cellarit Managing Director Scott Witt said the migration off two physical servers, hosted by Bulletproof Networks Pty Ltd., earlier this month was a success.
"There were a variety of reasons to go virtual," Witt said. "The most immediate was our database server was about to come out of a maintenance contract and was becoming a bit frayed at the edges and needed to be attended to."
With a server reaching the end of its maintenance cycle, Cellarit needed to make a move "one way or another" and with Bulletproof's advice went virtual.
"At the end of the day virtualization made sense and is a cheaper solution on a monthly basis," Witt said. "Effectively, as a virtual customer we are removed from the hardware cycle. If we retained the old cycle, every few years we were forced to evaluate a move to the latest hot box."
Witt said hardware capacity is no longer a concern for Cellarit because "at the end of day we can dial up any usage on the virtual server."