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There are many exciting aspects to incorporating virtualization into an IT environment. For example you can use virtualization to test critical applications with the latest service packs or updates, before deploying them to your production environment. Maybe it's necessary for you to maintain legacy applications which require running on an earlier operating system. You could easily accomplish this using virtualization, while still being able to run the latest hardware and operating system on the host machine.
Virtualization also allows you to consolidate workloads on to fewer physical machines. This can be a tremendous cost savings as now instead of having multiple underutilized servers running, you can consolidate them, saving on hardware resources, space, and the electricity costs to power and cool them. For example, if you were running 4 physical servers providing web applications, email services, file sharing, and database access. You could instead buy 1 more powerful server, then using virtualization run each of the 4 servers independently as virutal guests on 1 physical machine instead of 4.
Imagine the savings, you're buying fewer physical machines, you're using less electricity, and you're using less physical office space and that's only some of the advantages. It also makes it cost effective to incorporate high availability scenarios, which help to keep systems up and running even during planned or unplanned downtime. I can assist you in building custom virtual machines (VMs) or setting up virtualized lab environments for all your virtualization needs.
My Experience Includes:
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
