How many ways can virtualization improve your life as an IT guy? First, let's just consider its use in server consolidation. Just the bottom part of the rack pictured below is our virtual infrastructure. In the top of the rack (unseen) we have 4 servers running their own OS (how last year :) and in our c.o., we have another 4 stand alone servers. The three servers in this picture are running VMware ESX 3. This cluster of ESX boxes is, at the time of this writing, running 21 virtual servers.
Just think of the implications of running these 21 boxes and physical ones:
- KVM Switches
- Power considerations
- Cooling
- Network ports
- etc...
A lot of time could be spent on each of these topics, but just try to picture it. This simple half rack of a san and three servers vs. 21 servers. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... how much do you think virtualization/server consolidation is worth?
Email me (jim (at) vmwarez.com) a picture of your virtual infrastructure and tell me how many VMs your running... and I'll post it here for all to see!
1 Comments:
This is a very nice site. But the very name gives wrong idea since I have come across the word, "warez" for bad software and malware sites.
So several times before when found a link to this site, I avoided it. May I suggest putting a title in the explorer or at the top saying that this is a clean site or something to indicate this ? Or say that this is a site recognized by VWMARE itself ?
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Anonymous, at August 02, 2008 6:11 PM
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