Server Consolidation
Overview
Controlling the growth of servers, particularly around file-based applications, is becoming a priority for many organisations. The number of physical servers is driving up the cost of storage, increasing administration time and using scarce power and cooling resources.
Server virtualisation and network attached storage (NAS) can help address these issues:
Reduce the number of physical servers that are deployed and increase CPU utilisation from a typical 5-15% to 60-80%
Enable consolidated backup and recovery
Integrate storage & server virtualisation
Centralise management
Improve storage utilisation & reduce connectivity costs
Reduce power and cooling resources
In addition to consolidating the physical number of servers, these strategies can help the organisation build utility computing models where a centrally managed pool of storage and server resources can be allocated and expanded with flexibility and ease.
Server Consolidation with vmware
File Server Consolidation with NAS
Vendor Alliances
