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Virtual Infrastructure Benefits

By Exforsys | on March 2, 2009 |
Virtualization

Virtual Infrastructure Key Benefits

No matter how good an IT firm is, it will face challenges from time to time. A number of IT firms find that their servers and storage mechanisms are not being fully utilized, and this means that they must increase their level of performance. These IT firms must be capable of managing their energy as well as the price of their data centers, and they must be capable of offering innovation and scalability in order to provide support for their operations.  It is important for them to be able to reduce the complexity of IT, but they must also be capable of optimizing the service delivery and the total uptime.

These are the key challenges which are found within IT, and few organizations are immune to them. Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet which can be used to solve the riddle of the opposing forces, but there are few solutions which can be used to lower cost, and help increase the efficiency of It.

Additionally, it can also reduce the complexity of operations and enhance the uptime and performance as well. The name of this technology is Virtualization. Server virtualization, which may also be known as virtualized infrastructure, is not a magic bullet, but it offers a number of powerful benefits to IT shops, regardless of their size.

There are a number of things that virtualization can assist IT firms with, and some of these things include reducing the requirements for your hardware, power, and space. It can also give you the ability to provision new servers in the environment, and it can be done quickly and with ease.

It also gives you the ability to reallocate your resources, and it can be accomplished without a large amount of downtime. Virtualization will make sure that applications are functioning in a manner which is highly available. One of the best things about virtualization is that the most critical applications will be prioritized.

Virtualization Features and Capabilities

In addition to reducing the complexity of managing systems and operations, virtualization is also capable of reducing the complexity of the disaster recovery method. There are a number of standard usage models for virtual infrastructure, but when this technology was originally developed, the consolidation of the virtualized infrastructures offered benefits for multiple IT disciplines. Some of these included the containment and consolidation of servers, which lowers the sprawl of the server by consolidating the system within virtual machines.

The legacy application rehosting is another standard feature of virtualization, and this gives the legacy operation systems and the software applications the ability to be migrated within the virtual machines that are operating on the fresh hardware, and this allows for reliability which is very high.

The accelerating development cycles are responsible for the testing of the servers, and can allow them to be re-provisioned very quickly. Another feature that can be found with virtualization is the provisioning of the infrastructure. The amount of provisioning time will be lowered through automation capabilities which are highly advanced.

Business continuity involves the system files of the whole system which may be encapsulated so that replication and restoration is easy, and can be accomplished with any server that is the target. There are a few emerging technologies that will bring even more powerful capabilities to virtualization, and a number of studies have indicated that the first decade of the 21st century is just the beginning for this technology. Most virtualization deployments are carried out within the production environment, and they will often provide support for workloads which are critical.

Revolutioning Virtualization

There are a number of technologies which are revolutionizing virtualization, and some of these include servers which are energy efficient, processors which are quad-core, and the networks for the iSCSI storage area. The processors which are quad core offer a very high level of performance, particularly over processors which are only dual core, and the older single core processors. It has been shown that quad core processors can perform at a level which is higher than 60% of what could be achieved via Dual core processors.

Engineers from companies such as Dell have done a large amount of testing with the open source community, as well as Microsoft. The recommendations for virtualization practices involve the ability to provide as much as four virtual machines for each core, as well as 32 virtual machines for one quad core server that has twin sockets.

With this level of capacity, it is possible to gain a much higher level of reduction in terms of data center space, and your energy costs can also be greatly reduced. Additionally, it is also possible to achieve a much higher level for the utilization of assets.

The management of systems has been lowered in terms of complexity, and only a small number of server administrators are necessary to handle the infrastructure. Because of the focus on the energy costs and the environment, many system vendors have become highly efficient when it comes to the management of energy within their products.

Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the Dell Energy Smart servers, which were the first in the industry that were specifically designed to manage the efficiency of energy. These servers are able to offer more than 25% more energy for each watt when compared to contemporary servers. A SAN, or storage area network, is necessary for making good use of virtualization.

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