Get more compute power out of servers while benefiting from a more adaptable data center
In today’s complex IT environments, server virtualisation simply makes sense. Data centers are filled to capacity and each new purchase drives up power and cooling costs. Existing servers are under utilised with industry utilisation averages typically being 10 % of available resources. Lack of space, cooling and power are increasing deployment lead times resulting in project delays that are impacting on the organizations bottom line. With energy costs rising and a potential 50% reduction in power consumption being achievable from undertaking a server virtualisation project server virtualisation cannot be ignored.
Server virtualisation is much more than just about consolidation and the obvious reduction in facilities costs. The sophisticated management and high availability features provided by server virtualisation solutions offer increased flexibility, faster response times and improved service level agreements.
Improved Response Times - Server virtualisation software enables administrators to deploy complete N tier environments from templates in minutes rather than days of even weeks with a traditional approach.
Increased Application Flexibility - Server virtualisation software enables rapid changes in resource allocations based on application requirements. These changes can be policy driven ensuring resources are matched to requirements without administrator intervention.
Increased Server Manageability - Sophisticated management applications controlling a virtualized environment enable administration of an entire server farm from a single console. Physical servers can be added to or removed from resource pools on the fly without requiring downtime on existing environments.
Application Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Server virtualisation software includes high availability features as standard. Automated recovery and migration features allow virtual machines to move between pools of physical resources online or automatically restarted in a new resource pool in the event of hardware failure.
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