With organizations sending out and storing growing volumes of electronic data, new buzz phrases have worked their way into the business lexicon. “Server Virtualization” among them.
Forward-thinking organizations are increasingly realizing that server virtualization projects can significantly reduce capital and operational costs, generating immediate financial benefits and greater business agility. As is usually the case, technology seems to be advancing faster than businesses’ abilities or willingness to take advantage of it.
Virtualization has been a big topic among IT professionals for several years. More recently, the subject has worked its way into important discussions by other business decision-makers and other employees.
Server virtualization brings clear benefits, including server consolidation and improved resource utilization, reduced power consumption and greater IT efficiency, reduced costs and server sprawl, improve server management, provisioning and configuration as well as operational performance.
Some of the many business benefits associated with virtualization include:
Centralized Infrastructure
It centralizes an organization’s infrastructure, creating a network that can be shared and accessed by multiple employees from almost any location. If one employee’s computer goes down, information can be accessed from another one.
By virtualizing servers, IT teams can centrally manage all VMs, as well as hosts and host clusters from a centralized interface. This dramatically lowers the time necessary to perform tasks like:
- Provisioning new servers (down to a matter of minutes)
- Updating, patching and upgrading servers from a centralized interface
- Monitoring and Management – IT can automate tasks. The threshold for the server utilization limit can be controlled and using which the system would be able to monitor the hosts and the related components thereby eliminating bottlenecks and downtime.
Increased Reliability
Virtualized environments provide high availability features, substantially reducing downtime. By establishing secondary hosts and consistently monitoring the primary host, if the primary server goes down, the system can automatically migrate to the back- up host leveraging shared storage solutions in a matter of seconds, practically eliminating service interruptions.
Data Center Consolidation
Server virtualization requires fewer servers, networking gear, and number of racks needed — all of which translates into less data center floor space required. (This means more energy/money savings.)
As a general rule, businesses can expect up to a 10 to 1 reduction in servers with a well implemented virtualization project. By eliminating vast amounts of underutilized computing capacity, organizations that virtualize their server environment can dramatically lower the number of servers they need to manage.
Improve disaster recovery
Virtualization offers an organization three important components when it comes to building out a disaster recovery solution.
- By removing the dependency on a particular hardware vendor or server model, a disaster recovery site no longer needs to keep identical hardware on hand to match the production environment, and IT can save money by buying cheaper hardware in the DR site since it rarely gets used.
- Server Virtualization creates an affordable replication site.
- Test your fail over plan work rather than hoping and praying that it will work if and when the time comes.
Simplified Administration
It allows for the simplification of business procedures, especially administrative tasks. Procedures such as the hardware licensing can become more simplified and manageable.
Increased Security
Offsite data backup involved in virtualization increases the security of electronic assets and expands options for business-continuity and disaster-recovery plans, all of which enhance network resiliency. In addition, viruses can be managed on a larger scale.
Saves Energy Costs
Migrating physical servers over to virtual machines and consolidating them onto far fewer physical servers is SO green! Server virtualization will help you to lower monthly power and cooling costs in the data center.
Virtualized environments can also result in dramatically lowered energy consumption. Not only is the number of physical servers dramatically lowered, but the software can monitor host resource utilization based on pre-defined thresholds.
For example, the software migrate VMs to different machines in order to put certain machines to sleep to reduce energy burn. When the usage numbers pick up again and more computing resources are necessary, the software reverses the process and capacity increases.
The bottom line – Increased virtualization can increase an organization’s uptime. It can be a great money saver!
That’s where NocON Solutions can step in and help.
Businesses and organizations with only a few employees and larger can benefit from reliable equipment and services that create a virtual network to help manage, store, send, process and protect data 24 hours a day.
Contact us today at +91 9745550277 about your server virtualization and related cloud-management services.
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