Novell Virtualisation White Paper As A Novell Partner and experts in Virtualisation we are pleased to highlight a Novell White Paper available for download on their site. (See links) MAN Consulting have already performed virtualisations on hundreds of servers, consolidating resources and saving our clients money. Virtualization lets you reduce your total number of servers by giving you the ability to migrate multiple environments on different physical machines to individual virtual machines hosted on a single server. "These virtual machines each run their own independent and self-contained operating systems and server applications. By consolidating multiple server environments onto a single server, you can harness more of your data center’s unused computing power and get up to eight times more work from the same amount of resources. Virtualization also provides the added benefit of dynamic provisioning—moving applications and systems in one virtual machine from one server to another as needed. By harnessing the server-consolidation power of virtualization, your organization can enjoy the following: - Decreased hardware costs through reducing the number of physical servers that need to be maintained, physical space, power and cooling requirements. Virtualization can allow for the deployment of 12 or more virtual machines on each physical server for a 12:1 consolidation ratio.
- Increased resource efficiency. When you allow multiple applications to coexist on one physical server, you harness more of a server’s capacity.
- Reduced server provisioning time, since virtualization can reduce server provisioning time by up to 50 percent. This enables you to be more responsive to customer needs.
- Improved troubleshooting. Because instances of virtual machines can be remotely managed at any time from
anywhere on the network, you reduce the need for physical support visits. - Increased flexibility and scalability. Because new virtual machines are easy to deploy, your IT team can respond more
rapidly and flexibly to business requirements for new IT resources. - Increased productivity from being able to run multiple operating systems on a single computer. Your organization can do
more in-depth development and testing, as well as take on a greater number of additional projects. - High availability and non-stop maintenance. Through temporarily migrating virtual machines and their hosted applications to other physical servers for planned hardware and software maintenance,
you’ll have zero application downtime. - Tighter application security by isolating and minimizing vulnerabilities through the creation of virtual machines for each
application. Protection can extend to the application, libraries, services and operating system, as each is protected in its own container. - More control over configuration change management since unapproved changes
made to a running application in production can be protected through the ability to rollback servers to a warehoused image." Read more of the paper on the Novell Site
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