Internal storage virtualization should be an integral element of any large scale server consolidation implementation.Virtualized server environments continue to proliferate as businesses look to drive greater operating efficiencies across the data center. Many forward looking enterprises have goals to virtualize over 50% of their server infrastructure in the next couple of years.
Clearly, server virtualization is reshaping how applications are deployed and managed in the data center. However, this sea change is not without ramifications for the storage infrastructure. In fact, we have come to believe that the planning and deployment of large consolidated, virtualized server environments is explicitly intertwined with the design and implementation of a flexible, high performance, resilient storage infrastructure.
Our advice to end users: think holistically about your infrastructure before embarking on a large scale server consolidation project. As we have discussed, server consolidation is about improving server utilization, but it makes no sense to drive up server utilization to the detriment of lowering storage utilization. In short, we believe that users must consider both sides of the infrastructure equation – server and storage optimization – in order to realize the highest ROI possible in a server consolidation project.
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