Consolidation and Virtualization

Having established a company in a productive and reliable server, you can replace them with several low-power machines, the total cost of ownership of such high-performance server, usually turns out to be lower. The truth is reduced and overall system reliability.

The cost of the equipment by using a more expensive server to increase, but its simpler technical support, and hence the total cost of ownership. In the configuration of the two computers with a total RAID-array can minimize system downtime after a failure and move the virtual environment to another computer almost instantly. If one computer fails, running applications can be immediately restored to the other - will be lost only the operational data stored in the cache, stopped the car. Thus, the consolidation will reduce the costs, which make the maximum share of the TCO.

Using virtualization simplifies application migration from one server to another. This process usually can be done painlessly - the standard operation of moving the virtual environment. As a result, it is possible to physically move the application to their optimal use. For example, if a company has data centers around the world, with the help of virtualization, it can move applications back to where they are most needed.