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The Challenges of Data Center Virtualization
Virtualization brings the potential to deliver dramatic savings, but also some unique challenges. Is your data center ready for virtualization?
Kevin Normandeau
April 21, 2009
1 Min Read
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Virtualization brings the potential to deliver dramatic savings in terms of server count, footprint, power consumption and cooling requirements for data centers. For all its advantages though, virtualization also brings some unique challenges:
Overall power consumption will be lower, but highly variable.
There will be fewer servers, but each one will be more critical than ever.
Applications can be dynamically reallocated at will, but the support infrastructure cannot do the same.
The data center footprint will be smaller, but overall efficiency might still be suboptimal.
The good news is that there are practical and affordable ways to address these challenges and improve data center efficiency in the process. This paper from Eaton in the Data Center Knowledge White Paper Library looks at some of the power-related challenges and technologies that can address them.
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