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Saving with Server Virtualization

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Number of servers in an enterprise increase with the growth of the

organization. With slowdown effecting everyone, the first thing for an

enterprise to use is their existing infrastructure as much as possible, before

they plan to buy any new hardware. Since servers are rarely utilized to their

maximum levels, this is where server virtualization can help. Server

virtualization itself now doesn't need any introduction. Virtualization has

grown so much over the past couple of years that, whenever deploying a new

server, first thought is to deploy it as a VM.

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Sever virtualization offers many benefits, as you are using your existing

server, you can easily save on the costs which you would have spent on new

server. With existing server being utilized optimally, you also save on power,

deploying a new server will consume more power, than using existing ones at

optimum levels.

Another benefit of server virtualization is flexible resource allocation. In

case you find that one of the servers in the virtual environment doesn't need so

many resources, you can take them away and reallocate to another server that

really needs them.

This could be RAM, storage space, network interface or a number of other

things. All this can happen dynamically without bringing down the physical

server.

Server virtualization is also considered a green technology. As you won't be

deploying new server, you will be reducing carbon emission to atmosphere.

Consider these stats given by Microsoft on its website “a server setup of

Standalone IIS x 10 results in 34,084 Kg of CO2 and after server virtualization,

a setup of One Hyper-V server with 10 IIS7 VMs results in only 3,491 kg of CO2.

That's a saving of 30,593 kg of CO2 emission into the atmosphere. Just in case

you are curious about reductions you can achieve in terms of power, CO2 and

money, go to http://www.hyper-green.com/.

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