Name: Bill, aka "wmcc"
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Bio: Bill is on the HP Presales Team at Softchoice for servers, storage and networking. With more than 5 years of industry experience, Bill is on the Green Team to share insights on the benefits and cost savings green IT offers. Bill can also point out HP solutions designed to achieve your company’s green initiative. Bill's goal is to keep up on the industries new solutions and share them with you.
Posts by wmcc:
Virtual and Greener
September 13th, 2010
As all of us in IT know by now, the fastest was to decrease the size of your data center is to virtualize in some way or another. For those of you who have not yet tried it you need to give it a shot. For those of you who have some applications virtualized but not all, then take a look at what you are working with to see if you can virtualize even more.
With free basic software versions from VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix there is no reason to not try it out and see what you think. Before you know it you will start seeing fantastic results in power reduction (and power bills), cooling, and physical space in your data center. You can use capacity planners to figure out what to virtualize next. These planners will detail all of the utilization numbers of your existing machines and then tell you what kind of a machine you need to put all your VMs on.
We have been seeing up to a 30 to 1 physical server consolidation ratio. Imagine taking the power, space and manageability issues of 30 servers out of your environment! What a relief. Read the rest of this entry “
