Server Virtualization in a Nutshell: Virtualization is a technology that allows you to put multiple servers onto one physical server. Benefits include reduce hardware costs, reduced IT service needs, disaster recovery benefits, and moving a virtual server to new hardware only takes minutes versus days.
Server Virtualization has quickly become the hottest trend in IT over the past 5 years. The recent surge in popularity can be attributed to the drop in price for entry level virtualization for small business owners. A few years ago, migrating to a virtual environment was very costly, due to the need for expensive hardware, software, and IT service labor. That is no longer the case. With the advances in virtualization technology, the hardware requirements have dropped so far, that it is much cheaper to go virtual versus the traditional route. IT costs also drop approximately 50% due to ease of management and the ability to move virtual servers quickly when there is a hardware malfunction.
Benefits of Server Virtualization
Besides the cost advantages with converting to a virtual environment, choosing to go virtual has major benefits. One of the biggest benefits is Disaster Recovery. If your business suffers a disaster; hurricane, fire, theft, sabotage, flood, or lightning, recovery is much easier. The reason is because virtual servers can be moved quickly from machine to machine. Non-virtualized servers require almost identical hardware to be moved and even than it can cause major problems.
Another great benefit to going the virtual route is ease of administration. Managing virtual servers is much easier. Backing up a virtual server can be done in a few minutes, so when you need to test a setting or make a server change, you can create a quick snapshot backup of the server and then make your changes. If a problem arises, you can quickly move back to a recent snapshot and eliminate downtime.
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