Virpus

Visualizing the world

a Wow Technologies, Inc.

Company

John Jorden

Powering Blade Servers With Virtualization- Enhancing Cooling And

Power Performance

Blade servers updated with the latest technologies - A good package

True, blade servers generate a lot amount of heat, difficult to configure and the

high cost price ranges are not comparable to any other servers of the same origin.

But these are the old news; when technology changes, the server world is under the

transformational phase, why do not we move into the world of blade servers that

has become the hottest trends of the server market? The truth is that many of the

data centers and enterprise environments have deployed the blades which works as

an excellent substitute for its counterparts like rack mount servers. Let us look up

into some probing questions and answers (dictated by the experts in the field) to

clear out the myths that have been surrounding the blade-server virtualization

environment for quite a long period of time:

Virtualization and blades: are they a complementary package?

Server virtualization on a blade “ambience” can double or triple the

benefits. Instead of consolidating the server environment in a single

physical space, the distributed management of them would be a cost-

effective approach. Considering the pros, includes the following:

High utilization of the available servers.

The hardware / software combination can yield high profitability, in

terms of cost and performance.

Saves space in the disks, less floor space than the rack mount servers.

Hot-swappable blades are available; which can detriment the heat

effect

Vendor-lock in issue: Have the problem emerged as a barrier for the IT

managers to accommodate blades?

Having discussed about the barrier respondent list to the IT managers, they

have come to the below conclusion

“Better than traditional 1U servers which takes half of the server space,

vital resources like the switches and cards are shared on a random basis,

giving way to a more centralized system; but the vendor-lock in issue still

lies as a major hindrance affecting profitability to a great extent”.

The reliable solution, which can be taken in this regard is to choose blade

vendors, corresponding to the server vendors. Most of the blade chassis

supports multiple configurations with different processors and storage

capabilities.

How to prevent over consolidation on blade servers?

Virtualization tools, widely available in the market now can help in over-

consolidating of the blades. The most common available is CiRBA’s Data

Center Intelligence Software which helps in accessing data about server

infrastructure like memory and disk storage.

If you are planning to move into the virtual private server system, then the

migration assistance panel of the professional VPS hosting solutions

provider, Virpus can help you and everything absolutely for free!! The

company provides a XEN paravirtualization system, for both Linux And

Windows Hosting.

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