It is no wonder that data centers are becoming overcrowded. With demands for more applications, storage, and servers it is a challenge to provide the necessary resources to the business. With the advent of virtualization administrators have been able to ensure that utilization on these resources is maximized while reducing the data center footprint, and costs.

On average servers use approximately 10% of their existing capacity. At MBtech we provide three ways to help you increase this rate of utilization with your current assets and increase your ROI.

Hardware virtualization- Allows more than one operating to interact with the same resources optimizing utilization.

Application Virtualization- Separates the application from the host computer allowing the software to be run on a central server rather than on an individual system. This results in savings from hardware, licensing, and maintenance.

Storage Virtualization- Combines multiple physical storage devices into what appears as one centrally managed device. Potential benefits include improvements in backup, administration, recovery while providing large cost savings on storage.

Methodology

Assess- Inventory, Performance Measurement, ROI analysis, Identify VM Candidate, Capacity planning, Assess impact, Determine requirements, Application support.

Design- Architect solution, Plan deployment phases, Assess P2V ratio,

Deploy- Implement management and monitoring tools, begin migration to virtual

Manage- ROI assessment, Performance monitoring, Process review and integration, training of key personnel