VMware vSphere 4
Offer the highest levels of availability and responsiveness for all applications and services with VMware vSphere, the industry’s most reliable platform for datacenter virtualization. Optimize IT service delivery and deliver the highest levels of application service agreements with the lowest total cost per application workload by decoupling your business-critical applications from the underlying hardware for unprecedented flexibility and reliability.
Server Consolidation
1. Reduce IT Costs While Maintaining Control and Offering Choice Don’t let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organization from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere. Cut capital and operating costs while increasing IT service delivery without being locked into limited choices of operating systems, applications, and hardware.
- Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by 80%, saving more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized
- Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
- Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in data disaster recovery
- Deliver IT services on-demand now and in the future, independent of hardware, OS, application or infrastructure providers
3. Achieve More Control and Flexibility in the Datacenter
Reduce Costs by Consolidating Hardware & Increasing Server Utilization
By consolidating your server hardware with VMware vSphere, the most robust software suite in the industry for server consolidation, your organization can:
- Increase utilization of existing hardware from 5-15% up to 80%
- Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better
Our Professional Services team can help you assess your IT environment to identify consolidation candidates and to calculate the potential savings from using virtualization.
Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure from a Single Point of Control
While most vendors offer only single-point solutions for server virtualization, VMware gives you the power to manage an entire virtual infrastructure from a single point of control. Using the production-proven VMware vSphere, your organization can:
- Accelerate provisioning time by 50-70%
- Manage virtual machines from a central location
- Monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts
These and other benefits have enabled more than 85% of our customers to use VMware virtual machines in production environments for a wide range of applications.
