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Reduce Energy Costs and Go Green With VMware Green IT Solutions
The IT Power Crisis Reduce Power Costs and Increase Resource UtilizationEnergy consumption is a critical issue for IT VMware virtualization gives you the power to right-size your IT organizations today. Computing equipment has become infrastructure through server consolidation and dynamic load increasingly dense, energy costs are on the rise and many balancing across a pool of physical servers. By running 10 or more datacenters simply lack the power or space IT services applications in virtual machines on a single x86 server, your IT require. Industry analysts estimate the annual cost of organization can dramatically increase server utilization and reduce powering a server will soon exceed its acquisition cost. energy costs.Underutilized desktop and server hardware is at the VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), a feature of VMware root of the problem. Desktops and servers run at average Infrastructure, continuously monitors capacity and resource utilization rates of only 8-15 percent yet while idle consume requirements across your virtual infrastructure and ensures service nearly as much power as they do when active. Hardware levels while minimizing energy consumption. When excess capacity is typically over-provisioned because it is hard to capacity exists, VMware DRS intelligently consolidates workloads adjust dynamically. The result is too much hardware that is onto fewer servers without downtime or disruption and places highly inefficient at delivering IT services. unneeded servers on standby. When resources are required , Consequently, many IT organizations are looking for VMware DRS brings powered-down hosts back online to ensure solutions that can help them reduce their energy costs and service levels are met. consumption while at least maintaining service levels and VMware DRS allows IT organizations to right-size IT infrastructure in responsiveness to the business. real-time and minimize power and cooling costs while delivering higher levels of availability and service to end users. . Go Green with Virtualization VMware Infrastructure has helped VMware customers reduce their energy costs and consumption by as much as 80 percent.VMware solutions can help reduce energy costs from the desktop to the datacenter by right-sizing your IT infrastructure. More than 100,000 customers-including Improve Energy Efficiency for Corporate Desktop PCsall of the Fortune 100-rely on VMware to reduce costs, VMware solutions can also help you improve energy efficiency increase IT efficiency and go green. on the desktop. Many VMware customers are reducing their Key Benefits: energy costs by using the VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure . Reduce energy costs by 80 percent. (VDI) solution to replace underutilized PC desktop hardware with thin clients that consume far less energy and do not need to be . Dynamically power down servers without affecting replaced as often. applications or end users. With VMware VDI, administrators get the added manageability . Green your IT infrastructure while improving reliability, and control that comes with centralizing desktop images in the availability and service levels. datacenter, while end users get convenient, flexible access to their own complete, customizable desktop.VMware VDI extends powerful virtual infrastructure capabilities "The Johnson Controls datacenter has been a much cooler, to the desktop, including dynamic workload balancing and roomier space thanks to the virtual infrastructure. We've distributed power management, which improve availability and reclaimed 32 tons of cooling capacity, and have reduced 49KVA efficiency. in power usage in the datacenter to 8.1KVA."Philip Cramer, Johnson ControlsR E D U C E E N E R G Y C O S T S A N D G O G R E E N SOLUTIONS BRIEF
Help Pay for Virtualization with Energy Efficiency World Wildlife Fund in the United Kingdom has dramatically reduced its carbon footprint while using Incentives VMware to simplify management of their IT infrastructure VMware virtualization is a proven solution for increasing and create an effective disaster recovery practice. After energy efficiency, and many major utility providers now experiencing these benefits, the organization's IT team offer financial incentives for virtualization-based desktop has been urging the entire global operat... [download for more]