Did you know that blade servers and virtualization can be combined now to move forward in efforts to consolidate and reduce the number of servers needed in the data center?
Customers use virtualization to help resolve a variety of challenges. Many begin as part of a server consolidation strategy to reduce the purchase of hardware and reduce management, But the benefits of virtualization go well beyond the reduction of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). The Virtualization can also help reduce the development cycle and deployment of new applications. Furthermore, it can be used to increase the uptime of the systems and add more flexibility with all the advance features offered by virtualization vendors, which never deemed possible in a physical environment.
However, historically blades systems were not good candidates’ for your virtual infrastructure implementation, mainly due to the limited Scalability of these systems. For example the limited slots of network cards & memory slots in older blades were a real show stopper for using blades as the hardware platform for your virtualization environment.
Today, the server virtualization technology on Blade Servers can be an ideal solution for many customers with challenges such as; limitations of space, power, & cooling in the Data Center.
Blades systems today is the solution, from the energy point of view, the most efficient, and some hardware vendors already have dared that blades spend up to 19% less energy than the traditional model of 1U & 2U servers. Further more, Blades can highly improve the wiring of the Data Center.
In addition, further to find out how the best bladecenters are competing, and help you find out the one for your virtualization project check out: HP blade server vs Dell Blade Server. Further more to find out how the best virtualization product for your need check out how they compare at: VMware ESXi vs Microsoft Hyper V Server
By: Julie Cole
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Blade Servers and Virtualization: How Can They Now Go Together?
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By S. Maurer
What is Computer Virtualization? What is Virtual Machine VM? The following are some excerpts about this extraodinary boom that will change the current IT world in the next two or three years. In my opinion this boom will be equivalent to the PC boom 30 years ago.
Continuing from Part 1 of this article:
6. Hardware management is completely separated from software management, and hardware equipment can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power to be allocated and de-allocated on the fly to various software services.
7. In a virtual infrastructure, users see resources as if they were dedicated to them while the administrator manages and optimizes resources globally across the enterprise.
8. It reduces server sprawl, reduces the quantity of hardware and software to purchase, saves power and requires less maintenance. But those are not the only reasons that customers and vendors are interested in virtualization technology.
9. Also virtualization has a huge potential to improve security. Virtualized servers make it easier to isolate unstable or compromised applications, provide fast disaster recovery solutions, offer powerful forensic analysis capabilities and create cheaper intrusion detection tools.
10. The virtual infrastructure architecture enables businesses to lower IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Managing a virtual infrastructure allows IT to quickly connect and manage resources to business needs.
By: S.maurer
