Data Center Consolidation
Give your organization a sustainable competitive advantage and see the promise of a responsive data center become a reality. Reduce costs through more efficient use of resources and respond faster to business needs so projects get deployed more rapidly and increase availability of your applications with a virtualized IT infrastructure.
- Increase hardware utilization and reduce hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding ten virtual machines per physical processor
- Reduce required data center square footage, rack space, power, cooling, cabling, storage, and network components by reducing the sheer number of physical machines
- Decrease labor cost by simplifying and automating labor and resource intensive IT operations
- Increase hardware utilization by 50-70%
- Decrease hardware and software capital costs by 40%
- Decrease operating costs by 50-70%
- Increase server-to-administrator ratio from 10:1 to 30:1
- Improve application availability and business continuity independent of hardware and operating systems
- Enable continuous uptime and non-disruptive maintenance of IT environments with live migration of entire running systems
- Eliminate cumbersome software installations and configurations with virtual appliances
- Accelerate application development and deployment lifecycles
- Improve responsiveness to business needs with instant provisioning and dynamic optimization of application environments
- Allow legacy systems to coexist with new environments
Using the production-proven VMware Virtual Center management software, your organization can accelerate provisioning time, manage virtual machine policies and monitor performance through a single administrative interface.
VMware TCO Calculator
This tool is designed to provide a total cost of ownership analysis comparing your current environment to a virtualized VMware environment. By answering a few questions, related to your existing environment, including the number of servers intended to be virtualized, time required to provision a new server, and existing storage requirements, default assumptions are made based upon to determine your current estimated costs and compare them to estimated savings based upon a virtual environment. Note, this tool is for estimations only and that capacity planning tools are required to physically assess your network with accuracy to architect a virtualization solution.
To use this calculator, go to: http://www.VMware.com/products/vi/calculator.html
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