Server Consolidation and Containment

Did you Know ...
A single server with a 400W power supply in a year consumes 3,512kwHours. 

This produces 3.3 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (for a coal fired power station) and would need 150 mature trees to offset it

The day may soon come with carbon trading where savings like these are mandated by government…

Gartner estimates the IT industry has a carbon footprint as big as the airline industry, and accounts for a whopping two per cent of all global carbon emissions

Reduce IT Costs While Improving Flexibility & Responsiveness

Don’t let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organisation from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure and help it reach its full potential by using virtual infrastructure solutions from VMware to:

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%
• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
• Save more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualised

Consolidate, Manage and Automate Your IT Infrastructure

VMware is the recognized expert in virtualisation technology solutions and offers the most robust software suite in the industry for server consolidation – VMware Infrastructure 3. By consolidating your server hardware with VMware Infrastructure 3, your organization can:

• Increase utilisation of existing hardware from 10-15% up to 80%
• Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better

With multiple servers consolidated on an ESX Server host, customers are able to reliably operate their servers at 60-80% CPU utilisation – a huge improvement in the return on investment in their server hardware. This higher CPU utilisation is possible only with the intelligent CPU resource controls made possible by the bare-metal architecture of ESX Server. Normally, running a server at high CPU utilisation creates the risk of a critical service being starved for CPU if others experience a load peak. ESX Server eliminates that risk with its CPU resource controls that assign CPU capacity to virtual machines on a “fair share” basis and it also allows an absolute minimum level of CPU capacity to be allocated to critical virtual machines.

CPU allocations can also be dynamically adjusted so you can “dial in” more capacity for a virtual machine in anticipation of a period of high load. ESX Server will enforce admission controls to prevent additional virtual machines from being started on a host if minimum resource guarantees for existing virtual machines could not be assured.