Server Consolidation and Containment with Virtual Infrastructure

Server Consolidation and Containment with Virtual Infrastructure
from VMware

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Description:
To meet the constant demand to deploy, maintain and grow a broad array of services and applications, IT organizations must continually add new servers. However, as a consequence of purchasing more and more servers, organizations face a growing server sprawl presenting many challenges. Consolidation and containment solutions implemented with VMware Infrastructure meet the challenges of server sprawl and underutilization by reducing hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%.

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VMware technology is used by more than 20,000 enterprise customers and provides a simple, proven solution for consolidating servers. Each workload that previously required a dedicated physical server can be placed in a virtual machine, making it simple to consolidate multiple workloads onto each physical server. The conversion process is made simple with VMware Converter, which automates the conversion of Windows servers into virtual machines.

In addition to consolidating servers today, implementing VMware virtual infrastructure provides a solution to contain future server growth. More than 40% of VMware customers have made virtual machines the default platform for all newly provisioned servers. Fulfilling requests for new servers with virtual machines defers the need to purchase new servers and improves utilization. This ability makes it possible to accurately forecast and strategically manage future growth in computing capacity.

Consolidating applications and hardware is the first step to creating IT infrastructure that can better respond to business needs and provide more reliable and robust services.

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