Why Go Virtual?
To host a reliable, fault-tolerant service, it's essential to run redundant servers for failover. However, many organizations who do this find that the duplication of servers results in a proliferation of underutilized machines, with associated costs and management overhead.
Server utilization of less than 5% can be common. Clearly, this is an inefficient use of resources, including hardware costs, power and cooling costs, rackspace, etc.
Organizations are turning to virtualization technology to solve this problem, and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 technology is the most mature and widely deployed solution. VMware customers report:
- Increased hardware utilization by 50-70%
- Decreased hardware and software capital costs by 40%
- Decreased operating costs by 50-70%
- Increased server to server administrator from 10:1 to 30:1
Virtual Appliances
A virtual appliance is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured application and OS environment that runs in a virtual machine. Virtual Appliances can be easily deployed on VMware ESX server and Windows Server 2005 R2.
In order to realize the full benefits for organizations that are standardizing on VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, ZXTM Virtual Appliance (ZXTM VA) is the ideal solution to their load balancing and traffic management needs. By using ZXTM VA, organizations can:
- Avoid the expense of additional datacenter space for physical appliances
- Use existing compute resources rather than purchase proprietary physical appliances
- Contain the power and cooling costs
ZXTM VA is the only traffic management solution available as a Virtual Appliance.
Find out more
Visit www.vmware.com for an introduction to the benefits of virtualization technologies.
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