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Sunday, 04 March 2007

Does your Organization need to have multiple servers that offer multiple services on a limited budget and limited infrastructure costs? You are not alone and we can help.

Server Virtualization is the answer. Section 913 can consolidate your existing servers into a lesser number of physical servers, yet keeps the digital infrastructure looking the same. This can reduce the costs of equipment, power, maintenance and increase uptime and backups.

 Here's how virtualization works:

 With standard servers the Operating System is tied directly to the physical hardware. Each Linux, or Windows server is bound to it's own physical server; Physical Server A runs Server A. With virtualization that binding is removed and replaced with a common Hypervisor allowing you to install multiple OSs on the same box; Physical Server A runs Server A, Windows Server B, Linux Server C etc. With each server, you can start them and stop them independently of each other, move them from machine to machine, snapshot them, clone them poke them and prod them.

Return on Investment (a simple scenario):

 Broadbent's Widgets has 14 servers, each server cost $4600.00 and $3000.00 per Windows license.

 That is $64,000 in physical machines.

 Of those 14 machines there is 1 Active/Active cluster. So we will leave those machines exempt for this example (clusters can be ruthless so if it isn't broken - let's not fix it). The 12 servers that are left, they cost $46,000 and are currently running an average of 20% CPU usage and 40% Memory usage, which makes them good candidates for virtualization. With the right existing hardware and reasonable memory/disk upgrades on 4 of those servers, we can virtualize the 12 servers to 4 machines.

 So our end hardware cost is:  $18000 for physical servers, to replace them in the future it would be an estimated $5600 per server for a total of $22,000. That is a $24000 savings! In addition to just the hardware returns, you can run your HVAC at a higher setting because we have removed 60% of the heat and there is less power draw from your UPS and the power grid making your electric bills less and the uptime of your UPS greater.

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