Enterprise Server Virtualization And Integration

Server virtualization and server integration can bring many benefits to enterprises: reduce the footprint of enterprise servers, reduce energy consumption and cooling costs, reduce the number of cables and achieve more efficient energy management.

However, server virtualization and integration will also have the following drawbacks, so enterprises should weigh the pros and cons before considering the implementation of server virtualization and integration.

Software license

Large servers have more CPU - the processing power of each CPU has been enhanced.

This has led to an increase in the cost of software licensing.

A company I just interviewed said that they found that software licensing fees were related to the number of CPU, and the processing energy consumption of new hardware was also increased.

These two aspects of cost increase offset the large number of financial cost savings resulting from server integration, and even resulted in higher cost than unimplemented integration.

complexity

The equation "a physical server = an application software" can be understood and grasped by everyone.

However, server integration leads to this equation no longer established, and changes to "a physical server =x application software or operating system".

This makes the integrated IT environment become a complex environment with hundreds of servers, and each server has its own supporting application software.

With the development of enterprise server integration, they need to ensure smooth management of shared server processors, memory and network bandwidth.

One key error

No company is willing to consider the possibility of human error causing system problems.

But the wrong cable, the wrong switch or one key is pressed. Such human error will paralyze the whole system in an instant.

The most effective disaster recovery plan and the rapid reconstruction of the server system are server hosting.

Server virtualization

And integration obviously saves costs, but also has many benefits for the enterprise IT environment.

However, enterprises should also understand the defects of server virtualization and integration so as to avoid problems.