Virtualization for Local Authorities Modernize, secure, and optimize your systems
Reduce costs, gain agility, and ensure service continuity for your business applications (civil registry, finance, urban planning, HR, etc.).
Benefits for Municipalities and Intermunicipal Authorities
Budget Optimization
Less hardware, lower energy consumption, extended refresh cycles. Precise management of licensing and capacity.
Service Continuity
High availability, live migration, automatic failover. Ideal for 24/7 citizen-facing services.
Agility & Speed
Provision a VM in minutes for a new business application, a portal, or a pilot database.
Security & Compliance
Workload isolation, network micro-segmentation, encryption at rest and in transit, centralized logging. Fully aligned with GDPR requirements.
Environmental Responsibility
Higher host utilization, energy-efficient design, optimized cooling options, and opportunities for responsible purchasing.
Intermunicipal Resource Sharing
A shared platform for municipalities: economies of scale, standardization, and simplified support.
Security & Compliance (GDPR)
Technical Measures
Encryption at rest (VM/data) and in transit (TLS)
Segmentation by zone: business, admin, DMZ, backup
Privileged accounts, MFA, admin bastion
Centralized logging, incident detection
Hypervisor updates and hardening
Organizational Measures
Processing register, DPIA when required
Contracts, subcontracting clauses, and reversibility
Tested backup & DR plans, regular drills
Access rights management and periodic review
Staff awareness and escalation procedures
Business Applications
Civil registry, elections, public accounting, grant management, GIS, citizen portal: dedicated and isolated VMs for each service.
Disaster Recovery (BCP / DRP)
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans with synchronous/asynchronous replication, regular testing, and realistic RPO/RTO objectives.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Standardized workstations, secure remote work, access for elected officials, council rooms, and mobile staff.
Test Environments & Sandboxes
Create an isolated test environment to evaluate a new solution without impacting production.
Our Technical Expertise
HypverV
Setup and administration of on-premises or hybrid Microsoft Hyper-V environments :
Installation and configuration of Hyper-V on Windows Server
Creation and management of virtual machines (VMs)
Failover clustering & high availability
Hyper-V Replica replication and recovery plans
Performance optimization (network, storage, CPU, memory)
Integration with Active Directory, backup, and monitoring
VMware
Design and operation of VMware vSphere platforms for critical infrastructures :
Installation and configuration of ESXi and vCenter
VM lifecycle management (deployment, templates, snapshots)
vMotion, DRS, HA, and fault tolerance
vSAN, shared storage, and I/O optimization
Network segmentation (vSwitch, Distributed Switch)
Security hardening and access management
Audit & Consulting
Comprehensive analysis of your current infrastructure to identify risks, performance issues, and areas for improvement :
Hyper-V / VMware configuration audit
Resilience and security review
Optimization and scalability recommendations
Design & Deployment
Design of virtualization architectures aligned with your business needs and budget constraints :
Hyper-V, VMware, or hybrid architecture
Installation, configuration, and documentation
Integration with storage, backup, and monitoring
Migrations & Consolidations
Support for your transformation projects, including physical server consolidation or cross-platform migration :
Physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration
Hyper-V ↔ VMware migration
Planning to minimize service interruptions
Support & Maintenance
Operational assistance to ensure the availability of your platforms on a daily basis :
Incident diagnosis and resolution
Updates and version upgrades
Guidance and skills transfer
Architecture
Key Components
Hypervisors (KVM, VMware, Hyper-V) with HA clustering
Shared storage (SDS/NAS/SAN) + snapshots & replication
Virtual networking (vLAN/SDN), firewalls, micro-segmentation
3-2-1 backup strategy, immutability, and key vault
Centralized monitoring & capacity planning
Deployment Models
On-premises : full control, low latency
Trusted / regional cloud : elasticity & disaster recovery
Hybrid : the best of both worlds
Virtualization vs. Containers