Top 5 Reason To Go For Server Virtualization
Date: Saturday December 8, 2007Posted in: Server Tech, Software, Technology
For anyone who own a business, the ultimate goal is to stay competitive among its business competitors while maintain their technology expenses in a healthy level.
Personally I do think that server virtualization will helps your company to stay competitive. If your are a software based company, you will need a numbers of servers for your code simulation and testing, code version control as well as your database server. Each server will easily cost you around USD 5-20k depends on your server specifications.
However, if your analyst your server performance and utilization in details, you may been shock and realize that each of your server may be only utilizing 10-20% of the total server’s CPU and memory usage. The remaining 30-70% of your server resources are remain idle in most cases.
Will it be nice that you can fully utilize your server resources and you will most probably needs 2 out of 5 servers running in your company. What you will get in returns? Here are the 5 main reason that you shall always make use of server virtualization:
1. Saves money $$$$$
The is the main important in any business case as it keep your products competitive and saves $$$ on buying too many servers that you actually not needed. Of cause, this will not saves you on your Microsoft Server OS licenses but it saves on your server hardware in the long run.
2. Saves spaces on your data center (server room)
As you do not have to maintain so many servers, you can fully utilize the spaces in your office for other purposes, additional office space for more staff as your company growth? Further more, Server racks is also an expensive equipment to locate all your servers, you save space and save $.
3. Save on server maintenance
You will need specified professionals in fields like System Engineer/ IT Engineer to take care of your servers. Windows Security Patching, hardware monitoring, performance monitoring on hardware failure as well. If you cut down the numbers of server you actually needs, you can saves man power in this area and may be they can focus on other area which will improve your business competitive further.
4. Save the environment
Less servers = less power consumption. With lesser servers, you need less power cable, less high power air con to maintenance the server room temperatures; and at the end, it’s more environmental friendly and you play your part in saving the environment from Global Warming.
5. Improve your product build time/time to market
During coding implementation and testing, you may crash your own coding and causing the testing environment stop working. With virtual server, you can actually create a snapshot of the ‘working’ version prior to your new release or testing. If anything happens to your coding, you can just ‘playback’ your previous ‘working version’ in no time. It will definitely improve the time to market of your products.
Above are just some of the examples and reasons that I recommended for virtual server.
You can google it for the virtualization software in the market and make good comparison to math your business needs. Meanwhile, VM Ware and Microsoft Virtual Server are some of the BIG players in the market.
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