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Virtualization How can virtualization cut costs and lead to growth within your business?

Virtualization How can virtualization cut costs and lead to growth within your business?. By Sean Danko. Table of Contents. What is Virtualization How does Virtualization Work History of Virtualization Why Should I Virtualize Infrastructure Advantages to Virtualization Works Cited.

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Virtualization How can virtualization cut costs and lead to growth within your business?

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  1. VirtualizationHow can virtualization cut costs and lead to growth within your business? By Sean Danko

  2. Table of Contents • What is Virtualization • How does Virtualization Work • History of Virtualization • Why Should I Virtualize • Infrastructure • Advantages to Virtualization • Works Cited

  3. What is Virtualization? • Today’s x86 hardware is designed to run a single operating system and single application • Leaves most machines underutilized • Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run, using one physical machine, by sharing its resources • Different virtual machines can run different applications

  4. What is Virtualization (cont.)

  5. How does Virtualization Work • Use software to virtualize hardware of an x86 server (CPU, RAM, Hard Disk, Network Controller, etc.) • Installation of any Operating System to virtual machine • Hypervisor allocates resources from physical machine to virtual machines as needed

  6. How does Virtualization Work (cont.)

  7. History of Virtulization • Developed in 1960’s by IBM to partition large, mainframe hardware for better utilization • Abandoned in 1980’s and 90’s due to inexpensive client-server applications • Re-introduced in 1999 to deal with IT infrastructure operational challenges

  8. IT Infrastructure Challenges • Low Infrastructure Utilization: Typical x86 platform only utilizes 10%-15% of server capabilities • Increasing Physical Costs: The cost to add an increasing amount of physical machines grew • Increasing Management Costs: As machines were added to an infrastructure management costs to monitor machines grew • Insufficient Disaster Recovery: Downtime critically affected important server applications

  9. Virtual Infrastructure

  10. Advantages to Virtualization • 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in non-virtualized PCs) • Cost savings of more than $3,000 annually for every workload virtualized • Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks • 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime

  11. Works Cited • "History of Virtualization." What is Virtualization. 2008. aio solutions, Web. 3 Nov 2009. <http://www.aiosolutions.com/what_is_virtualization.php>. • "How to Explain Server Virtualization to your Friends ." Doing It Virtual. 16 12 2006. Microsoft, Web. 3 Nov 2009. <http://vscommunity.com/blogs/virtualzone/archive/2006/12/16/a-short-introduction-to-server-virtualization.aspx>. • Ou, George. "Introduction to Server Virtualization." Tech Republic. 26 05 2006. Web. 3 Nov 2009. <http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6074941.html>. • Virtualization Basics." VMWare. 2009. VMWare, Web. 3 Nov 2009. <http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtualization.html>.

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