The Benefits of a Well Planned Virtualization

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The benefits of a well planned Virtualization
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The benefits of a well planned Virtualization
One of the biggest challenges facing IT
departments today is to keep your work
environment. This is due to the need to maintain
IT infrastructure able to meet the current demand
for services and applications, and also ensure,
that in the critical situations of the company,
is able to resume normal activities quickly. And
here is where it appears the big problem . Much
of IT departments are working on their physical
limit, logical and economical . Your budget is
very small and grows on average 1 a year, while
managing the complexity grows at an exponential
rate. IT has been viewed as a cost center real
and not as an investment, as I have observed in
most of the companies for which I have
passed. With this reality, IT professionals have
to juggle to maintain a functional structure. For
colleagues working in a similar reality,
recommend special attention to this topic
Virtualization.
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The benefits of a well planned Virtualization
Instead of speculating, Virtualization is not an
expensive process compared to its benefits .
Believing that depending on the scenario,
Virtualization can be more expensive than many
traditional designs. To give you an idea, today
over 70 of the IT budget is spent just to keep
the system environment, while less than 30 of
the budget is invested in innovation advantage,
differentiation and competitiveness. This means
that almost any IT investment is dedicated simply
to "put out the fire" emergency solve problems
and very little is spent on solving the
problem. I followed a very common reality in the
daily lives of large companies where the IT
department is so overwhelmed that you can not
measure the time to think again. In several of
them, we see two completely different scenarios.
A before and after Virtualization / cloud
computing. In the first case, what we see is a
bottleneck with reality drastic and resources to
the limit. In the second, a scene of tranquility,
guaranteed safe management and scalability. There
fore, consider the proposal of Virtualization and
discover what you can do for your department and
therefore, for your company. Within this
reasoning, we have two maxims. The first
"Rethinking IT. The second "Reinventing the
business."
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Increase efficiency and security To the extent
that the structure increases, so does the
complexity of managing the environment. It is
common to see data center dedicated to a single
application. This is because the best practices
for each service request that has a dedicated
server. Obviously the metric is still valid,
because without doubt this is the best option to
avoid conflicts between applications,
performance, etc.. Also, environments such as
this are becoming increasingly detrimental as the
processing capacity and memory are increasingly
underutilized . On average, only 15 of the
processing power is consumed by a server
application, that is, over 80 of processing
power and memory is actually no use. Can you
imagine the situation? We, first, we have
virtually unused servers, while others need more
resources, and ever lighter applications, the use
of hardware is more powerful. Another point that
needs careful consideration is the safety of the
environment. Imagine a database server with disk
problem? What will be the difficulty of your
company today? The time that your business needs
to quote, purchase, receive, change and configure
the environment to drop the item. During all this
time, what was the problem?
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Another point that needs careful consideration is
the safety of the environment. Imagine a database
server with disk problem? What will be the
difficulty of your company today? The time that
your business needs to quote, purchase, receive,
change and configure the environment to drop the
item. During all this time, what was the
problem? Many companies are based in the cities
/ regions far from major centers and therefore
may not think this hypothesis. With
Virtualization it does not, because we left the
traditional scenario where we have a lot of
servers, each hosting its own operating system
and applications, and we go to a more modern and
efficient. In the image below, we can see the
process of migrating the physical environment,
where multiple servers to a virtual environment,
where we have fewer physical servers or virtual
servers hosting.
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vmware1 By working with this technology and we
have underutilized servers for different
applications / services that are assigned to the
same physical hardware, sharing CPU resources,
memory, disk and network. This makes the average
usage of this equipment can reach 85. Moreover,
fewer physical servers means less spending on
supplies, memories, processors, means less
purchasing power and cooling, and therefore fewer
people to manage the structure. Vmware2 At this
point you should ask, but what about security? If
now I have multiple servers running
simultaneously on a single physical server I'm at
the mercy of this server? What if equipment
fails? New thinking is not only the technology
but how to implement this technology in the best
way possible. Today VMware , the global leader in
Virtualization and cloud computing, working with
a technology cluster, enabling and ensuring high
availability of their servers. Basically, if you
have two or more servers that work together in
the event of failure of any equipment, VMware
identifies this fault and automatically restores
all its services on another host.
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Be ready quickly new services In a virtualized
environment, the availability of new services
becomes a quick and easy task, since resources
are managed by the Virtualization tool and not
tied to a single physical machine. This way you
can hire a virtual server resources only and
therefore avoids waste. On the other hand, if
demand is rapidly increasing daily can increase
the amount of memory allocated to this server.
This same reasoning applies to the records and
processing. Remember that you are limited by the
amount of hardware present in the cluster, you
can only increase the memory to a virtual server
if this report is available in its physical
environment. This ends underutilized servers, as
it begins to manage their environment
intelligently and dynamically, ensuring greater
stability Integrating resources through the
cloud Cloud computing is a reality, and there is
no cloud without Virtualization. VMware provides
a tool called vCloud with it is possible to have
a private cloud using its virtual structure, all
managed with a single tool.
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Reinventing the Business After rethinking, now is
the time to change, now is the time to reap the
rewards of having an optimized IT organization,
we see that when we do a project structured high
availability, security, capacity growth and
technology everything becomes much easier in the
benefits we can mention the following Respond
quickly to expand its business When working in a
virtualized environment, you have to think in a
professional manner to meet all your needs, you
can meet the demand for new services, this is
possible with VMware because it offers a new
server configured in a few clicks, in five
minutes and has offered a new server ready to
use. Today becomes crucial, since the start time
a new project is decreasing. Increase focus on
strategic activities With the controlled
environment, management is simple and it becomes
easier to focus on the business. That's because
you get almost all the information and
operational work is to have a thought of IT in
business, and that is to transform a technical
consultant. Therefore, a team will be fully
focused on technology and strategic decisions,
and not another team as firefighters, are
dedicated to put out the fires caused.
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