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Benefits
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
- High availability and redundancy options
- Centralized management
VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
A leading virtualization solution, maximizes hardware and IT efficiencies, achieving significantly higher server utilization rates and consolidating hardware. Virtualization brings many benefits to organizations, allowing them to:
- Lower total cost of ownership by virtualizing servers and thus reducing the amount of hardware
- Reduce time to provision, move, and repurpose servers by using virtual machines (VM) that are already created, portable, and hardware independent
- Consolidate any X86 server platform
- Achieve higher server utilization rates of up to 80% (instead of typical rates of 5-15%)
- Optimize the utilization of every server
- Dramatically lower power and cooling costs when fewer servers are needed to do the job
High Availability through Virtualization
Once contained in a virtual machine, server workloads can be managed using VMware High Availability (HA) to help eliminate unplanned downtime. Other advanced features of VI3 help organizations decrease downtime and reduce the costs associated with maintaining high availability.
High Availability allows you to:
- Improve availability through VMware HA, which continuously monitors server capacity and “reserves” spare capacity for quick virtual machine restarts in the event of a failure
- Eliminate planned downtime by using VMware VMotion to move running virtual machines for maintenance or when server utilization is too high
- Take advantage of workload balancing and automate the process of moving VMs off a host server that is targeted for maintenance to other servers in the same resource pool
- Lower business continuity costs by not requiring dedicated stand-by hardware
Simplify Disaster Recovery
Using VI3 Avoid the cost of one-to-one mapping of production and off-site Disaster Recovery (DR) hardware. VI3 uniquely provides for a unified DR platform that is less expensive and simpler to manage, while enabling organizations to improve recovery time and test the reliability of DR plans.
VI3 allows you to:
- Eliminate the need for one-to-one mapping of primary and recovery site hardware as well as the complications that arise from hardware differences between primary and recovery sites.
- Lower costs by leveraging the flexibility of hardware-independent virtual machines that can run on any system, including repurposed servers
- Accelerate recovery because virtual machines eliminate the need to perform OS and application installations.
- Provide a centralized facility for LAN-free backups of VMs using VMware Consolidated backup.
