7-KEY BENEFITS OF SERVER VIRTUALIZATION FOR BUSINESSES

Server Virtualization has been around for a while now and has dramatically changed the way data centers perform, giving simplified and improved IT environment with improved efficiency, less maintenance, faster provisioning and increased uptime.

Here are key Benefits of Server Virtualization:

1. Server Consolidation - By implementing server virtualization, physical servers are divided into virtual servers thus resulting in fewer servers. Companies can experience certain benefits including less heat buildup, UPS costs, power and cooling costs thus giving a simplified server environment.


2. Reduced Cost - Virtualization reduces overall costs, as amount of hardware used is greatly reduced, less electricity and cooling costs. In addition, it increases the efficiency of existing server resources consequently resulting in easier maintenance and less downtime.

3. Faster Deployment - Another powerful feature of server virtualization is faster redeployment. During a physical server failover, redeployment generally takes longer owing to several factors such as image of server is available at the moment or not, a backup server is ready or not and more. However, with virtualization, redeployment is a matter of minutes with the availability of high-end virtual backup tools. 

4. Improved Disaster Recovery - Another great advantage of virtualization over physical server environment is, improved disaster recovery. As virtual machines are hardware independent, thus it is easier to restore back up or move those virtual machines elsewhere. In addition, with updated snap shots of virtual machines, and availability of Site Recovery Manager, testing is automated when a disaster strikes. 

5. Easy Migration to Cloud - Moving to virtual machines, next step can be taking advantage of cloud-based infrastructure. Initially making a small move is better, later when company is comfortable with this technology can explore different kinds of virtualization and eventually move to a cloud hosting company to reap maximum benefits. 

6. Easier Backup - Back up is so much easier with virtualization technology. Virtualization allows full backup of virtual servers, snapshots of virtual machines, ensuring updated data and faster deployment. In addition, image level backups enable easier disaster recovery. 

7. Greener Pastures - By switching to virtualization, company is significantly reducing the amount of heat dissipation and doing its part to contribute to a clean & green environment.