Server virtualisation

Overview

The goal

Consolidation: A necessity for today's datacentre

Consolidating resources through server virtualisation can increase utilisation far beyond the inefficient 10-15% often seen in data centres today. Advances in the technology, along with higher degrees of automation, offer more opportunities for consolidation than ever before. Virtualisation can also make workloads more resilient and reliable. Getting to a highly virtualised and shared IT environment provides a foundation for dynamic infrastructure that leads to automated and rapid service delivery with the benefits of economies of scale.

The advantage

Deep experience with virtualisation technologies

Virtualisation can help by shifting the functionality of many servers onto fewer servers. With virtualisation, organisations can gain greater control of their infrastructure, and can improve cost management. IBM offers a rich, diverse and integrated array of virtualisation solutions, spanning from x86 systems to System z mainframes as well as the services and software necessary to allow organisations to streamline the management of computing environment and reduce maintenance and support costs by consolidating IT infrastructure. IBM's experience is unequaled in the industry.

The benefits

A dramatic improvement in IT management

By deploying multiple virtual servers on one physical server, organisations can simplify management, cut hardware and energy costs and increase server flexibility. Tracking, updating and maintaining one physical server is often easier and less expensive than doing the same for several. Yet each virtual server is still effectively delivering all the same services as it did in the old paradigm. Virtualisation pools server resources so they can be more effectively utilised to deliver workloads with higher service levels.