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Virtualise 50 Servers you could save €141,750 over 5 years in power and cooling alone!
By leveraging innovations in virtualisation technology an enterprise can increase IT flexibility, reliability and availability freeing datacentre s (a fancy word for a room full of computers) from the shortcomings of old style, one computer server per computing function. Businesses all over the world are replacing rooms full of old style servers with a handful of high performance servers running VMware’s ESX software. In fact, one VMware customer recently replaced 60 physical servers with two mirrored high spec servers each running VMware’s ESX server software with 40 virtual machines.
Businesses can create virtualised, dynamic IT environments that are cost and energy efficient and support the green movement in a significant way.
Fig data source: 1 A single 5kW rack (typically housing 12 servers) running continuously could cost €4,300+ a year in electricity.•(5 kW * 24 hours * 365 days * €0.10 / kWh). Cooling is estimated at 80% of that wattage. Bringing the total energy cost for that rack to an estimated €7,700. Based on an average of 400K watt server (2 processor) which uses another 80% of that wattage to drive cooling. Source: Sustainable Energy Ireland, May 2007
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