Data center virtualization has the potential to unlock a whole host of efficiency gains for IT infrastructure including cost savings, scalability, and the ability to recover from disasters. To maximize the benefits, IT departments must use carefully selected tools and follow the best practices. This collection of whitepapers on IT infrastructure concentrates on the most important components necessary to build and manage a modern data center that is highly available flexible, secure and flexible.
Virtualization allows numerous virtual machines to be run on the same physical hardware, which means that there are fewer servers required in total. This reduction in equipment leads to savings on power, hardware and cooling and also lower maintenance costs. It also allows for greater utilization of assets which can be of great benefit to organizations that are looking to reduce their environmental impact. VMs can be isolated from each the other, ensuring that a failure of one VM does not affect other VMs, or the underlying hardware. This can provide a certain level of security for sensitive data. In addition, scalability can be enabled which means that adding or deleting VMs can be done quickly without requiring the purchase of new hardware. This allows businesses to respond to changing demands for workloads quickly and proactively adapt to the changing technological landscape.
