IT Virtualization

Virtualization is a trend that’s here to stay. Virtualization is in short making the maximum use of resources such as electricity, space and management. The most common is server virtualization, which is both cost efficient and reliable. Virtualization of clients is becoming more popular with the use of VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). Products like VMware, Citrix and MS Hyper-v are used by many companies. 24 Solutions can assist with inventory, planning and migration of your current environment to an existing better, or a new virtual environment.

7 reasons to virtualize:

1. Efficient use - With physical servers, you use an average of 15-20% of the total power since you need ensure peaks in the hardware. With virtual hardware, you can reduce or increase the resources at any time.
2. Save the environment - Energy costs, such as electricity, cooling and space take a large part of the IT budget. In a virtualized environment, you can reduce that cost markedly.
3. Longer lifetime - With physical servers you have to replace hardware around every three years. Virtual servers are not dependent of the hardware in the same way, meaning that you don’t have to rebuild your virtual environment every three years.
4. Increased flexibility - Server virtualization allows you to quickly set up your server and your application. You can instantly make a copy of your environment to use for testing och developing.
5. Better availability - With a virtual environment installed correctly, you can use availability in the form of clusters and fail over solutions. Meaning that you can easily move a virtual server between physical servers.
6. Better performance - If you have problems with performance in a physical environment today, it may be too complex to upgrade. In a virtual environment you can increase performance by moving to another physical server, or by increasing the memory or CPU.
7. Improved TCO - Even though hardware becomes cheaper, the total cost of a virtual server environment is lower than that of a physical one. This because you don’t need the same amount of servers or parts as for example networks and disks.