Server Consolidation & Containment

Virtualisation has become the recognised production grade solution for increasing the utilisation of existing hardware.

Experience over the past seven years has indicated that processor utilisations may be increased from 10-15% up to 80% in a typical workload environment. This leads to substantial reductions in hardware required.

By consolidating your server hardware with virtualisation you can improve utilisation of existing hardware from 5-15% up to 80% and reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better. Typical consolidation ratios range from 7:1 to 15:1 with production applications, and virtualisation can accelerate provisioning time by 50-70%.

You can manage virtual machines from a central location and monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts. Fewer servers means less money spent on energy consumption due to reduced power and cooling requirements.

The ViFX team can help you assess your IT environment to identify consolidation candidates and to calculate the potential savings from using virtualisation.