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Consolidate and Virtualize
Reduce server sprawl, consolidate systems, data and apps to enable cost reduction, easier management and green benefits.Customer goals: Reduce server sprawl, consolidate systems, data and apps to enable cost reduction, easier management and green benefits.
Project brief:Today's data centers are full of servers, each hosting one application. It costs a lot to power these units and cool the room, but each is running well below peak capacity. With new, higher-performance hardware, coupled with virtualization technology, each server unit can host several virtual servers, each with its own OS, memory, connectivity, and processing resources. Companies are realizing tremendous savings - in terms of energy costs, IT overhead, and maintenance - with virtualization.
The key to a successful virtualization deployment is the software that manages virtual machine creation, provisioning, and monitoring. This software carries out server deployments in minutes, as opposed to days or weeks, and automates routine tasks so IT personnel can focus on innovation for the business, and not just on keeping the lights on.
Microsoft integrated solution: Windows Server 2008 R2 has built in Hyper-V to virtualize your system resources without the cost of third-party software. With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you can consolidate database servers to create virtual data centers that help reduce hardware and administrative expenses.
Result: More efficiency. Lower costs. Less effort.
Additional Resources/Testimonials
Getting Started:
Blog:
Planning Tools for Your Server Virtualization Project
This blog discusses two tools that bring best practices guidance and automation to your virtualization planning and migration efforts. CLICK HERE
Blog:
Does Consolidation = Virtualization?
While virtualization and consolidation are often mentioned in the same breath, they’re not the same thing. CLICK HERE
Finding your solution/Making the business case:
Video:
Driving Operational Efficiency in the Datacenter
Read how a mortgage industry information services company uses virtualization to go from 650 servers to 22, cutting energy usage by 90 percent. CLICK HERE
Installing a solution:
White Paper:
Server Consolidation through Microsoft Virtualization
This paper discusses how Microsoft System Center simplifies, automates, and accelerates a server consolidation effort. CLICK HERE
Video:
SQL Server 2008 Virtualization and Consolidation With Charley Hanania, Senior Database Specialist
This video discusses consolidation and virtualization of SQL Server, and how SQL Server 2008 will help to resolve some key enterprise database challenges. CLICK HERE
Day-to-day operations:
White Paper:
Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment
This paper provides best practices recommendations on running SQL Server in the Windows Hyper-V environment. CLICK HERE
Learn More About These Products
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008, R2
Windows Server 2008 enables IT professionals to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures. New virtualization tools, Web resources, management enhancements, and seamless Windows 7 integration help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and efficiently managed data center.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008
To take advantage of new opportunities in today's fast-moving business world, companies need the ability to create and deploy data-driven solutions quickly. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 helps your organization manage and store structured and unstructured data, and its rich set of integrated services enables you to do more with your data, such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides the highest levels of security, reliability, and scalability for your business-critical applications, too.