MAT2 Task 2 Executive Summary
Benefits of Virtualization
Executive Summary
The server virtualization environment has increased tenfold creating flexible and cost effective infrastructure for IT datacenter. Return on investment (ROI) is substantial when consolidation is implemented properly. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the company forty-seven physical server’s currently in use in the datacenter and provide information on how virtualization can increase utilization of hardware, decrease power assumption, and reduce system administration management cost of the servers.
What is Virtualization?
Virtualization is a way to pool a few physical servers by creating a virtual environment to accomplish the same task instead of using many individual servers. Currently, each server has their own set of tasks or programs to run and none of them intersects with each other, which can lead to some servers being underutilized while others are idle because no request are sent to the servers. Creating a virtual machine (VM) can reduce the physical network load by shifting network traffic to the internal virtual net. For example, the receptionist attempting to answer five incoming calls at the same time, while the mail room clerk sits by idly waiting for the employee or the postman to drop off mail before the clerk can start to distribute the mail out to the various departments. In this example, the receptionist is overwork while the mail clerk is not. Virtualization can fix this by allowing multiple servers to operate on one physical server using virtualization technology. Virtualization creates stable computing service and is growing into the desktop and storage area networks (SANs) environment. Virtualization is usually done through hosted virtualization used by market leader VMware or hypervisor used by Microsoft which is installed directly on the x86 server. The company will need to decide on which virtualization technology they will deploy in the datacenter.
Virtualization ROI
Return
Executive Summary
The server virtualization environment has increased tenfold creating flexible and cost effective infrastructure for IT datacenter. Return on investment (ROI) is substantial when consolidation is implemented properly. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the company forty-seven physical server’s currently in use in the datacenter and provide information on how virtualization can increase utilization of hardware, decrease power assumption, and reduce system administration management cost of the servers.
What is Virtualization?
Virtualization is a way to pool a few physical servers by creating a virtual environment to accomplish the same task instead of using many individual servers. Currently, each server has their own set of tasks or programs to run and none of them intersects with each other, which can lead to some servers being underutilized while others are idle because no request are sent to the servers. Creating a virtual machine (VM) can reduce the physical network load by shifting network traffic to the internal virtual net. For example, the receptionist attempting to answer five incoming calls at the same time, while the mail room clerk sits by idly waiting for the employee or the postman to drop off mail before the clerk can start to distribute the mail out to the various departments. In this example, the receptionist is overwork while the mail clerk is not. Virtualization can fix this by allowing multiple servers to operate on one physical server using virtualization technology. Virtualization creates stable computing service and is growing into the desktop and storage area networks (SANs) environment. Virtualization is usually done through hosted virtualization used by market leader VMware or hypervisor used by Microsoft which is installed directly on the x86 server. The company will need to decide on which virtualization technology they will deploy in the datacenter.
Virtualization ROI
Return