Servers
Server consolidation and virtualisation
Servers need cooling, electricity and connections. Direct consequences are more complex maintenance and management, higher costs and a bigger environmental impact than necessary. By making more efficient use of your servers’ capacity, the number of servers as well as the number of server locations can be limited. This will simplify the management and reduce the management costs. Standardisation in hardware and disconnection from the network, power and cooling between the housing and the processor power will also give you a higher level of flexibility.
Server consolidation certainly won’t result in using more power and exuding a great deal of heat. More processor power per square meter will be available, which will increase the energy usage and heat emission per square meter. But consolidation and virtualisation means your ICT infrastructure’s flexibility will increase and the number of physical machines will reduce.
A consolidated server infrastructure in combination with virtualisation software gives organisations the ability to disconnect the software installation from the hardware layer. The advantages of consolidating servers include cost savings, physical space savings, simplified management, a higher rate of efficiency and greener ICT. Less hardware is needed with virtualisation, costs are saved and management is simplified.