Save Money with Data Center Virtualization and Vmware Vsphere 4.1

VMware vSphere is the most widely used and robust data center virtualization platform in the industry. It gives the highest levels of responsiveness and availability, which are required by the most demanding data centers throughout the world.

VMware vSphere will help you to cut capital and operating costs and provide you additional control over your computing system . You will be able to lighten the load of your IT personnel and can use just about any server hardware, operating system, and applications you like.

What is new in vSphere 4.1:

vCompute

• Memory Compression -Minimizes memory contention and provides application response.

• DRS Host Affinity – Set policies when using Dynamic Resource Scheduling to ideally keep an application residing on a specific server.

vStorage

• Storage I/O Control-Set storage quality of service priorities for each virtual machine to prioritize availability of storage pools.

• Array Integration-use new storage protocols between vSphere and storage boxes for quicker Storage vMotion events and virtual machine set up.

vNetwork

• Network I/O Control-Set network quality of service priorities per flow type for preferential access to network resources.

Scalability

• More virtual machines per cluster: 3,000.

• More physical hosts per vCenter Server instance: 1,000.

• More virtual servers per vCenter Server instance: 10,000 powered on:15,000 registered.

Availability

• VMware vMotion – Improvements to vMotion allow quicker response and availability allowing up to eight vMotion migration events in parallel.

Security

• Active Directory integration-Single sign-on capability for user authentication at the vSphere host for centralized user management. Easily assign privileges to users or groups and roll out permission rules across hosts.

VMware server virtualization solutions can help you to make the most of your IT assets. It can help to reduce the capital expenditure of the data center by as much as 60%! Reductions in real estate, cooling, and power requirements can help you to reduce energy costs by as much as 80%!

If you are not already deploying server virtualization with shared storage, you should know that it can significantly cut costs. A good way to start is to have a server consolidation analysis completed which will give you an estimate of what types of capital and operational cost savings you can get with a server virtualization upgrade.

Find out additional information about the benefits of server virtualization technology as well as full data center virtualization from your local information technology value added reseller, who can also help you with the upgrade.