6 High Level Reasons to Deploy Virtualization within your organization
June 15, 2010 2 Comments
- Lower the quantity of physical hardware – virtualization usually is most cost effective to implement as part of a hardware refresh project.
- Lower Power usage – lowering the amount of physical hardware reduces you power and cooling needs
- Increase uptime – allows for hardware repair without effecting the overall environment
- Manageable backups – backups can now be done during the day and be verified
- Cost effective Disaster Recovery – this means different things to different organizations, but an effective design can be implemented for most organizations
- Lower administrative overhead – management and patching of your physical and virtual machines can be done fro the management client.
Hello Doug, I have moved my database application to a Virtual Machine. I have seen no performance degradation. I think the big issue at Bank of America is there is not an overall strategy for Virtual Servers. For example how many database Servers can you run on a virtual server or what is the performance of a database on a standard server and a virtual server. I want to make this a Green Belt project to come up with a deployment/sizing strategy for virtual database applications.
Let me know of you need helpI will be finishing up my contract for the IRS VMware implementation in 3 months.@Joe Barra