Virtualization Solutions for Your Business

Virtualization has brought about a revolution in the way organizations manage

and view their infrastructure. This is the reason that most of the medium as well

as large businesses have put virtualization solutions into use in some form or the

other. But it can become difficult to manage the virtual servers and infrastructure

and it may also not be easy to have the knowledge of exactly where to host which

applications.

For a virtualization program to prove to be effective there is a need of a clear

strategy and a plan for the management in future which covers both physical and

virtual infrastructure. Virtualization is represented by an abstraction from the

available physical resources. Most companies have begun to implement the

technology of server virtualization. It helps to consolidate many servers in one

physical server. This helps in a great way as there is less number of physical

servers required with greater utilization of the existent hardware.

One server can do the work of many servers as resources of a single server are

shared over many environments. This also aids the company to have multiple

operating systems as well as multiple applications in remote and local locations. It

also frees the users from geographical and physical limitations. Cost is the biggest

advantage of server virtualization and also the fact that it leads to saving of

energy as the hardware resources are used more efficiently. There is also saving

on the physical space and lesser power is consumed.

There is storage virtualization also which helps to achieve independence of

location as the data is abstracted from the physical location. This kind of system

gives its user a space for storage of data. By having your data at one place, it helps

you to avoid the issue of multiple servers that need access to the data that is

located at another server.