Services

Application Management

From packaging a few simple apps to complete end to end application management, Workspace IT offers adaptable services that fit your business requirements.

Digital Employee Experience

Digital Employee Experience tools are invaluable when problems arise, assisting IT teams to efficiently identify and resolve issues. The ability to monitor performance is key when looking to optimize employee productivity and enhance employee user experience.

At Workspace IT, we work closely with ControlUp and Lakeside, whether you are looking to discuss requirements for a new solution, or require assistance utilizing an existing deployment, our technical consultants have a wide range of skills equipping them to provide anything from a fully managed proof of concept, troubleshooting, health checks, right through to a fully managed service.

Digital Workspaces (VDI)

VDI offers centralized management of virtual resources, enhancing IT oversight of machines, applications, and security, while facilitating seamless access from any device, anywhere.

Workspace IT has a broad range of services across digital workspaces, from initial planning and managed Proof of Concepts, Health Checks on existing environments, Migration to Cloud Platforms, right through to Fully Managed Services.

End User Device Management

Workspace IT can help simplify Operating Systems deployments including Windows 11, improve security by helping you keep up to date with Patch Management, and prolong device lifespan with IGEL OS.

System Health Checks

Health checks can be vital in ensuring system efficiency and identifying potential problems prior to impact. Workspace IT offers Health Checks on Active Directory, Citrix, Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM) and VMware, to optimize or improve performance against best practices.

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management is proactive and continuous updating of the software in your environment to reduce overall risk exposure.

Workspace IT can help identify and remediate vulnerabilities to help keep your systems and enterprise applications safe from cyber threats and data breaches.

vSphere 6.7 – What’s New?

February 2, 2024

On the 17th of April 2018 VMware released vSphere and vCenter Server 6.7.

What’s new in this release and why should we think about upgrading?

We have rounded up some of the key benefits of upgrading to 6.7, check them out below:

  • Quick Boot to allow Hosts to reboot lightning fast
  • Expansion on the HTML5 vSphere Client (less requirements to use the flash client)
  • Additional vCenter backup scheduling options
  • Performance increases with better memory and DRS resource consumption
  • vGPU enhancements allowing suspend and resume operations on virtual machines
  • Per-VM EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) which allows granular control over VMs and their hosts
  • Instant Clone APIs have been released
  • VDIMM, TPM, VBS and I/O Memory management – features of the new Hardware Version 14
  • VMFS6
    • Automatic Space Reclamation – Allows storage systems to reclaim deleted or unmapped disk blocks from VMFS datastores
    • 4K Native Drives in 512e mode (now default)
    • SE Sparse is now default on v6.7 enhancing on the older VMFSsparse allowing further space reclamation

On the 5th of December 2019 VMware released 6.7 Update 3b which is the latest release. 6.7 u3b fixes a host of known issues and we recommend you upgrade to this release as soon as possible.