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Virtualization and Consolidation

Interstate Technologies is comprised of highly skilled consultants, engineers and technicians with specialists in Virtualization, Computer Networks and Service & Support.

What is "Virtualization"?

Virtualization is the disconnection of your servers and data from physical hardware. Once upon a time, a single server required a single host machine, and that server is all that could run on that host. The downside to this methodology is that it is incredibly wasteful. On average, a server only utilizes about 15% of its hardware capacities, meaning that 85% of that servers available resources is wasted and unused. With virtualization, multiple servers can run independently on a single host, making much better use of resources and decreasing waste and unused overhead.

Virtualization in today's business environment.

Today virtualization is so common place, and standardized, that all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies currently utilize VMWare Virtualization technology. Virtualization provides for the ability to reduce hardware and maintenance costs, improve operations, increase flexibility and cost-effectively impliment fault-tolerance and high-availability options for your mission-critical data and infrastructure.

Top Two Reasons to Virtualize:

- Reduced Administration Burden

With VMware Server, the burden of administrating your servers will be reduced. According to VMware, you can reduce the administrator to server ratio from 1:10 to 1:30. This means that you can either save time in your daily server admin tasks or be able to administer more servers by having VMware implemented.

Here are some examples of how VMware can reduce your administrative burden:
  • Centralized console allows quicker access to servers
  • You can quickly mount CD/DVDs using ISO files
  • You can deploy servers quicker
  • Quickly allocate additional RAM or disk drives
  • Quickly move virtual servers from one server to another

- Reduced Infrastructure Cost

We just talked about the time VMware server can save you on deploying new servers but think about it, what about the cost for that server, cooling, electricity, network ports, console video mouse & keyboard ports, and rackspace? By VMware running servers virtually, all of these costs can be averted.

  • Increase hardware utilization by 50-70%
  • Decreased hardware and software capital costs by 40%
  • Decreased operating costs by 50-70%
    VMware works best for servers that aren't resource intensive. However, that description probably includes many servers in most IT environments today.