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

Aspect
Isolation
Performance
Use Cases
Governance
Virtualization (VM)
Strong (full guest OS)
Very good (slight overhead)
Legacy business apps, Windows, databases
Traditional IT tools
Containers
Process-level isolation, shared kernel
Excellent (minimal overhead)
Cloud-native services, microservices, CI/CD
Container orchestration (Kubernetes) & DevOps