Virtualization Success in the business world relies on the ability to overcome the competition on all levels. A highly competitive business will continually seek the best value for dollar weighed option available. Technology drives business entities to become more efficient and to compete on a world market. That’s were virtualization steps in. Virtualization provides a business with more effective solutions saving excessive hardware cost, more efficient time management, and overall improvement of system reliability.
The standard model of technology infrastructure follows the rule of one application per server. For example, if an organization requires a database solution, a system administrator would design a solution to meet that requirement. This model has server our technology needs for decades but falls short in meeting the demands of fully utilizing the hardware (server). You are only using a small percentage of the computers capabilities and wasting the rest. As a result, technology has become more integrated into the most mundane of everyday activities, resulting in exponential growth of demand for capacity and processing power.
Server virtualization breaks away from the standard model by allowing organizations to consolidate multiple applications and services to a single physical server, increasing capacity while lowering the operational costs. Virtualization allows organizations to enjoy a much greater amount of flexibility to respond to bother internal and external forces of change. Virtualization also allows for much greater scalability and growth potential than do physical environments.
In the virtualization world there are two major contributors, Microsoft, with their Hyper-V solution, and VMWare with their ESX model. Both of these products are great but do have some differences. ESX, a direct driver model, installs a hypervisor on the