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Server Virtualization. Virtualization allows us to maintain one powerful piece of hardware instead of five or more individual pieces of hardware. Anti-virus Server. Virtual Server. UDS Cbord Test. UC - EMS. SA – Thin Client Mgmt. New Print Server.
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Server Virtualization Virtualization allows us to maintain one powerful piece of hardware instead of five or more individual pieces of hardware. Anti-virus Server Virtual Server UDS Cbord Test UC - EMS SA – Thin Client Mgmt New Print Server
“Greener” Reduction in power consumption and physical waste. • Reduces the number of physical servers to purchase($$$) and maintain(work hours and down-time). • Improves Performance through resource allocation. • Reduces server downtime due to hardware failures. If hardware fails, the virtual servers running on that system can be restarted on another host. Benefits of Virtualization
All eggs in few baskets – mitigated by hardware redundancy within each host as well as multiple hosts. • Not suitable for all servers – high traffic servers may not work well virtualized. • Ownership – with virtualization, there is little physical representation of the investment. • More up-front cost – to initially get hosts. Concerns
Addressing ‘eggs in one basket’ concern. Fail-over Two or more virtual Hosts Virtual Host 1 is having problems. Bring up Virtual Servers on Host 2 Some Virtual Servers on each Host Anti-virus Server Virtual Host 1 UDS Cbord Test UC - EMS Virtual Host 2 SA – Thin Client Mgmt New Print Server