What Is Virtualization?
Virtual Iron has enabled thousands of IT organizations to achieve significant ROI via server consolidations, development & test automation, simple virtual infrastructure management, business continuity, reductions in power, cooling and floor space and flexible virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Server virtualization is transforming today's data center into a flexible, highly utilized set of virtual resources. By allowing multiple applications and operating systems to co-exist and share resources on a single physical server, virtualization is dramatically increasing server utilization rates while reducing power, cooling and space requirements.
Organizations ranging from small to medium-size businesses
to large enterprises have deployed server virtualization solutions to consolidate the large number of single
purpose, single application x 86 servers. Many of these same
organizations are also turning to server virtualization to
accelerate the development and testing of applications so that
new applications can be deployed and provisioned rapidly with a
high degree of confidence.
With today's powerful and energy efficient dual core and quad
core x86 server platforms, IT users are able to run dozens
of virtual machines on a single physical server. The leading
candidates for virtualization include:
- Workloads consuming a small server footprint
- Infrastructure(Web, DHCP, firewall, file print servers)
- Messaging, small or partitionable databases
- Servers with high rates of reconfiguration
- Development and testing servers
- Staging and proof of concept servers
- Workloads with high uptime requirements
- Share redundant elements across many workloads
With consolidation efforts underway, many IT users are looking to leverage server virtualization solutions for more advanced use cases such as capacity management and workload balancing, business continuity and utility computing.
IT industry research firm Gartner, Inc. named Virtualization a “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008” and defines the next generation of Virtualization solutions as Virtualization 2.0: “With the addition of automation technologies – with service-level, policy-based active management – resource efficiency can improve dramatically, flexibility can become automatic based on requirements, and services can be managed holistically, ensuring high levels of resiliency.”
Virtual Iron has been delivering policy-based active management since 2006 based on our LiveMigration™ technology including dynamic capacity load balancing, automated high availability and disaster recovery.
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