The never-ending cycle of optimizing servers requires IT personnel to work with all available reconfiguration and consolidation processes. Virtualization is one such process that offers a great deal of flexibility in terms of infrastructure capacity management.
But as the deployment of server virtualization in production environments increases, the challenge of managing disparate virtual technologies is not virtual but very real. Virtual servers, like physical servers, still need to be managed and their performance must be monitored.
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Server consolidation can be a cost-effective way to rationalize IT systems. Major benefits of server consolidation include:
- Significantly lower IT system running costs by cutting the cost of IT management and maintenance (reduced hardware and software costs)
- Fewer elements needing management thus offering real savings in storage space and power consumption and allowing the creation of a viable and efficient business recovery plan
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The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL ®) is a series of “best practices” guidelines used to aid the implementation of frameworks for IT Service Management (ITSM). Widely acknowledged as “best of breed” in Capacity & Performance Management, Sysload products are a key tool for achieving ITIL standards for capacity management, incident management and problem management.
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