Virtualization of data centers is an increasing trend for companies looking to reduce costs, boost productivity, and become more sustainable. This technology is able to reduce the use of power and hardware by abstracting the underlying components of hardware and providing a virtualized servers. This method can also boost the efficiency of servers, a problem for many IT teams.
Data center virtualization also helps reduce the workload of IT staff by allowing IT staff to deploy and reconfigure virtual machines on demand. This will free up time for IT employees to work on more complex projects and to address business demands.
The ability to effectively separate and manage different functions on a single physical server is also a way to improve security and processes in IT. To ensure the highest performance and reliability, a server that is used for email can be separated from other servers such as a database server, web server server or any other type of function. This will allow IT teams to streamline their operations and increase the security of their systems by reducing the amount sensitive information that is shared between them.
One of the greatest benefits of data center virtualization is its ability to minimize storage costs by removing the necessity to physically store and manage each device on its own. This allows companies to streamline their storage management, decrease storage latency and save power.
When IT administrators are able to allocate resources such as memory, CPU and storage, they are able to optimize the performance of data centers and meet the demands of business units. IT teams can cut down on waste of resources by limiting the number of virtual machines to those required, and by monitoring and auditing VMs to ensure they are not idle or over-allocated memory and CPU, as well as and removing unused VMs and ensuring that VMs only consume resources when they are needed.