For businesses with 2 or more existing servers, this can provide significant cost savings in lower power and cooling costs and reduce the need for expensive capital investment. Additionally, you can quickly move workloads from one virtual workspace to another, easily prioritising business needs while maximizing server resources.
How Virtualization works
Virtualization works by running multiple Operating Systems (Windows, UNIX, Linux) and line of business applications as virtual machines (VMs) on a single host server. This is controlled by a piece of software which has advanced features to let you move workloads among different VMs, hosts and even data centers -- an obvious benefit for business continuity and disaster recovery.
By running in this way, you can also get a much higher level of productivity from the single piece of hardware. Traditional physical servers have a utilization rate of 5% to 10%, but with virtualization and server consolidation, utilization rates can increase to as high as 80%.
Why think about Server Virtualization
Cost Reduction
Virtualization helps you eliminate the “one server, one application” model, used in many businesses for the last 20 years. Many organisations have found the number of servers growing as they needed individual machines for a file server, accounts server, database server etc. Now, a virtual server will run all of these processes on a single piece of hardware.
Disaster Recovery
Server Virtualization can also help to provide long term security for your critical business data. Many organisations are dangerously under-protected because of the costs associated with disaster recovery and business continuity. Taking a virtualized approach, with fewer physical resources to consider, can significantly reduce both the costs and the complexity of protecting your business.
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