CCSI
VirtualizationServers
Traditionally server utilization has only been in the range of 18%. This means that there is a huge amount of wasted computing power in most enterprises. With the popular concern over CO2 emissions and energy conservation, virtualization is truly a concept whose time has come. CCSI Virtualization Servers are optimized for hosting multiple virtual server instances, either homogenous or heterogeneous. This generally means they have high performance multi-core CPUs with hardware virtualization and much more RAM than typical servers require since each hosted server instance requires at least a minimal amount of RAM. With modern dual processor Xeon™ or Opteron™ servers running VM Ware, KVM or ZEN hypervisors it is not uncommon to host twenty or more server instances on a single physical server. This allows a considerable reduction in TCO resulting from savings in hardware acquisition and maintenance costs, operational energy consumption, cooling infrastructure expenses, and personnel expenses. These savings can be rolled into establishing mirrored or clustered servers with fail over support yielding greater system reliability than could ever be achieved with traditional stand alone servers built with redundant hardware. When you consider the advantages, mirrored virtualized servers are quite compelling; especially in an era of tight IT budgets.
