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Virtualization Basics |
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Not sure what virtualization is? Well you’re in the right place. Let us walk you through a few scenarios to help you better understand the virtualization landscape.
The term virtualization refers to the abstraction of system resources. In the case of VMware they have software that allows multiple operating systems to run on one system at the same time.
Let’s look at the major operating system players in the industry and their role.
VMware - Market Leader in operating system and data center virtualization, their main platform is VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5
Citrix XenServer - Open source and paid virtualization platform for operating system virtualization, their main platform is Citrix XenServer Enterprise
Microsoft - Entry level virtualization platform for operating system virtualization, they have Virtual PC and Hyper-V.
The next question people ask is “Why Virtualize?” Reduction in cost is the #1 benefit. The savings can easily be in the millions. The two major cost factors are Server Cost and Power and Cooling Savings. Some of the other major cost factors are Data Center Real-estate, Server Provisioning, and Server Management. The second benefit of virtualization is to increase server utilization - the average server utilization is only 5% and the peak load is only 20%.
Reduce your server cost: · Reduce your server cost by 83%
How much power could you save per year? · 1 server virtualized saves on average $963 and 9636 kHw per year
Operation costs too high? · Operation costs can be four times the cost of the server · Reduce your server operation costs by $25,000 to $30,000 per host
Reduce environmental impact · The electricity required to power a single server equals 6 tons of C02
Let’s explore a typical environment
A typical server costs $10,000, and all companies just put one application on one server (ie server sprawl)
Let’s explore the following example:
100 x $10,000 = $1,000,000 in server costs in a typical 3 Yr cycle. Therefore every 3 years it costs another 1 million dollars. Let’s talk about power: Every server watt needs a watt for cooling. A typical server is 500 watts, so at $0.10/kwh, that is $262,000 over 3 years, to manage a server is 4 x the server cost we will leave that out so are TCO is $1,262,000
Lets Virtualize the 100 severs, on average you get a 10 to1 ratio so instead of 100 servers we buy 10 Servers at $15,000 each and the power is 750Watts, 10TB of Storage. Here is your new TCO $150,000 for servers $39,420 + Storage $80,000 Total VI TCO $269,420
Savings $992,580 in hard costs There are additional soft cost Environmental Impact (Emission Reduction) 1892 Tons of C02 over 3 Years
What are the next steps? We recommend a virtualization assessment, this will help you understand your server environment and how virtualization would effect it. Assessments include 30 days of metric collection for each server, a scenario modeling to determine your target platform and server-to-virtual machine ratio, Full ROI and TCO analysis of the solution including power and environmental savings.
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• Server “VMware / Citrix XenServer” • Backup “Tapeless” • Desktop “VDI” • Datacenter “VMware” • Application “Thinstall” • Virtualization Assessment • Storage Assessment • Green Data Center Assessment • Disaster Recovery Hosting • Storage “SAN, NAS, ISCSI” |
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