The document discusses the business case for virtualization using an HP and VMware solution. It outlines how virtualization can help reduce capital costs through server hardware consolidation and savings on storage, network hardware, and data center space. Virtualization also provides operational cost savings through reduced power and cooling costs, lower management costs from faster server provisioning, and reduced costs associated with disaster recovery and unplanned downtime. The document provides an example scenario showing how a company could realize over 60% savings over 3 years by consolidating 100 physical servers onto 13 physical servers using virtualization.
The document discusses how server virtualization can provide significant cost savings and operational efficiencies for organizations. It provides an example of a regional utility that virtualized 1,000 servers over 1.5 years, reducing costs by over $8 million through lower hardware, power, cooling, and real estate needs. Additional case studies show how virtualization helped a bank reduce provisioning time from weeks to hours and a community college improve disaster recovery and flexibility with limited budgets.
This document summarizes a proposal for implementing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at ABC Inc. It includes an executive summary highlighting benefits of VDI like simplified provisioning and centralized management. It then provides an overview of the current desktop challenges, typical corporate desktop models, and advantages of VDI. The objective is to evaluate the financial and operational impacts of VDI solutions. The analysis compares the 5-year total cost of ownership for the current (BAU) environment versus a VDI solution. It finds that while the VDI solution has higher initial capital costs, it provides overall savings of $66,000 over 5 years through reduced operating expenses.
This document provides an overview of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and its key components. VDI allows centralizing desktops in a data center for easier management, security and updates. It discusses the virtualization layer, connection brokers, client devices and remote access options. Live demos show examples of VDI solutions from VMware and Citrix. Benefits include cost savings, security, mobility and disaster recovery. Requirements like network performance, storage and connectivity are also reviewed.
VDI allows organizations to virtualize desktops by running them as virtual machines on centralized servers rather than individual physical machines. The document discusses implementing a VDI solution for the City of Hallandale Beach. It estimates that deploying an initial 50 VDIs would cost around $90,000, with additional costs to scale up to 350 VDIs. While VDI provides benefits like easier management and mobility, the costs include new storage, software licenses, thin clients, and implementation fees. ROI is not expected until year 5 due to upfront infrastructure investment.
The document discusses Novell's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution called R.E.D.I. It notes that VDI has gone through a hype cycle, from a peak of inflated expectations to a trough of disillusionment as solutions became complex and costly. Novell's R.E.D.I. solution aims to help VDI climb the slope of enlightenment by providing an integrated approach leveraging Novell's strengths in identity management, systems management, and security to deliver a more optimized and productive VDI environment.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is still a relatively new technology. Most people are either unaware or have only a brief idea about this emerging technology. This Slide share will provide your 12 points which you must know before implementing VDI Technology in your business.
Capture Your Cloud DaaS - The Business OpportunityNew Lease
This document discusses Desktop as a Service (DaaS). It begins by defining DaaS and listing some common DaaS technologies like Citrix XenDesktop. It then discusses benefits of DaaS like reducing costs, improving security and access, and future-proofing IT. The document also notes trends in cloud computing and the evolution toward integrated, hosted desktop solutions. It identifies the SMB market as prime for DaaS and provides steps for becoming a Microsoft SPLA and Citrix CSP partner to capture this opportunity. Finally, it emphasizes leveraging existing infrastructure to offer additional managed services and preparing an offering for when customers ask.
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
The document discusses how server virtualization can provide significant cost savings and operational efficiencies for organizations. It provides an example of a regional utility that virtualized 1,000 servers over 1.5 years, reducing costs by over $8 million through lower hardware, power, cooling, and real estate needs. Additional case studies show how virtualization helped a bank reduce provisioning time from weeks to hours and a community college improve disaster recovery and flexibility with limited budgets.
This document summarizes a proposal for implementing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at ABC Inc. It includes an executive summary highlighting benefits of VDI like simplified provisioning and centralized management. It then provides an overview of the current desktop challenges, typical corporate desktop models, and advantages of VDI. The objective is to evaluate the financial and operational impacts of VDI solutions. The analysis compares the 5-year total cost of ownership for the current (BAU) environment versus a VDI solution. It finds that while the VDI solution has higher initial capital costs, it provides overall savings of $66,000 over 5 years through reduced operating expenses.
This document provides an overview of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and its key components. VDI allows centralizing desktops in a data center for easier management, security and updates. It discusses the virtualization layer, connection brokers, client devices and remote access options. Live demos show examples of VDI solutions from VMware and Citrix. Benefits include cost savings, security, mobility and disaster recovery. Requirements like network performance, storage and connectivity are also reviewed.
VDI allows organizations to virtualize desktops by running them as virtual machines on centralized servers rather than individual physical machines. The document discusses implementing a VDI solution for the City of Hallandale Beach. It estimates that deploying an initial 50 VDIs would cost around $90,000, with additional costs to scale up to 350 VDIs. While VDI provides benefits like easier management and mobility, the costs include new storage, software licenses, thin clients, and implementation fees. ROI is not expected until year 5 due to upfront infrastructure investment.
The document discusses Novell's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution called R.E.D.I. It notes that VDI has gone through a hype cycle, from a peak of inflated expectations to a trough of disillusionment as solutions became complex and costly. Novell's R.E.D.I. solution aims to help VDI climb the slope of enlightenment by providing an integrated approach leveraging Novell's strengths in identity management, systems management, and security to deliver a more optimized and productive VDI environment.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is still a relatively new technology. Most people are either unaware or have only a brief idea about this emerging technology. This Slide share will provide your 12 points which you must know before implementing VDI Technology in your business.
Capture Your Cloud DaaS - The Business OpportunityNew Lease
This document discusses Desktop as a Service (DaaS). It begins by defining DaaS and listing some common DaaS technologies like Citrix XenDesktop. It then discusses benefits of DaaS like reducing costs, improving security and access, and future-proofing IT. The document also notes trends in cloud computing and the evolution toward integrated, hosted desktop solutions. It identifies the SMB market as prime for DaaS and provides steps for becoming a Microsoft SPLA and Citrix CSP partner to capture this opportunity. Finally, it emphasizes leveraging existing infrastructure to offer additional managed services and preparing an offering for when customers ask.
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
The document discusses how virtualization can help organizations achieve maximum value through improved power efficiency, reliability, and more integrated systems. It notes that digital data is growing exponentially and many companies will need to modify their data centers to handle this growth. Virtualization can help organizations reduce costs, improve service delivery, and better manage risk by consolidating servers, storage, and networking infrastructure. When combined with integrated service management tools, virtualization provides improved visibility, control, and automation of IT resources.
VMware: Delivering Desktops and Apps as a Service (Business Decision Maker)VMware
The document provides an overview of VMware's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platform for service providers. It discusses key market trends driving demand for DaaS like the rise of mobile devices and consumer technologies in the workplace. The VMware Horizon DaaS platform is presented as a purpose-built solution for delivering virtual desktops in the cloud with benefits like fast deployment, flexibility, and no upfront capital costs. Several use cases are described that demonstrate how the platform can help service providers capture opportunities in the growing DaaS market. Competitive offerings from Microsoft and Amazon are also referenced.
MT09 Using Dell’s HPC Cloud Solutions to maximize HPC utilization while reduc...Dell EMC World
Separate the hype from the reality of Cloud in HPC.
Building upon our Dell EMC HPC Portfolio, come deep dive into Dell’s hybrid cloud model for HPC. Built on private and public cloud models, Dell EMC's Hybrid HPC Cloud Solutions can help you optimize your CapEx and OpEx costs, while creating a flexible computing environment that adapts to dynamic HPC workloads, while ensuring resource availability. Maximize your RoI through a Hybrid HPC Cloud that enables your innovation and competitiveness.
VMware: Delivering Desktops and Apps as a ServiceVMware
The document provides an overview of VMware's Horizon DaaS platform for delivering desktops and applications as a service. The platform offers a unified management console to provision and manage different workspace models including RDS, VDI desktops, shared desktops, and published applications. It utilizes a multi-tenant service grid architecture for scalability across geographic locations and customers. Key differentiators of the platform include its multi-tenancy model, scalability to millions of desktops, and lower costs compared to alternatives.
MT25 Server technology trends, workload impacts, and the Dell Point of ViewDell EMC World
As you modernize your data center and become future ready, your server requirements are changing. With innovations such as software-defined storage and networking, your compute platform is now more important than ever. Discover how the highly innovative Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio is designed to meet the challenges of your future ready data center and how selecting the right compute platform can better enable you to deliver more efficient, secure and manageable IT for your business.
This Desktone hosted webinar features IDC's Enterprise Virtualization Software Sr. Analyst Ian Song will discussing how businesses can elevate their desktops to the cloud easily and affordably. Desktops are ripe for change. Windows 7 migrations, mobile devices and cost overruns are driving businesses to seek an affordable and flexible alternative. Until now, cost and complexity have been barriers to implementing traditional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions.
IDC and Desktone discuss the dynamics of the cloud, eliminating barriers to VDI, & benefits of moving desktops to the cloud. By moving desktops to a cloud-hosted service model, instead of an internally deployed and managed data center, companies can realize all the promised benefits of desktop virtualization—centralized management, improved data security and simplified deployment— without the exorbitant cost, limitations or hassles of VDI.
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides a virtual desktop solution that allows for centralized management of desktops, rapid deployment of desktop images, and a familiar end-user experience. It leverages VMware's proven virtualization platform to deliver enterprise-class scalability, management, and reliability to desktop environments. The document then demonstrates VMware VDI and discusses how customers have used it for desktop replacement, disaster recovery, and mobile workforces.
MT12 - SAP solutions from Dell – from your Datacenter to the CloudDell EMC World
SAP HANA has accelerated the pace of innovation – an in-memory platform that runs analytics applications smarter, business processes faster, and data infrastructures simpler. Join this session to learn how Dell EMC offers the broadest solutions for SAP HANA for any sized customer with the best performance and the most customer choices- from on-premise to hybrid to cloud.
The document discusses a survey of IT professionals that highlights the untapped benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and desktop as a service (DaaS) for mobile workforces. While most respondents were familiar with VDI and DaaS, few have adopted these solutions. The document examines the advantages and challenges of VDI, which provides centralized management but requires upfront infrastructure costs, and DaaS which outsources infrastructure maintenance and reduces costs through a subscription model. It suggests that a combination of VDI and DaaS along with multiple endpoint devices can optimize resources and productivity for organizations.
Smart Style Office for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure247 Invest
Smart Style Office is a virtual desktop infrastructure solution that allows IT administrators to remotely manage desktops running as virtual machines. It offers advantages like simplified management, improved security and data protection, flexibility for users to access desktops from any device, and support for an increasingly mobile workforce. Resellers can offer Smart Style Office to help customers with tasks like desktop migration, securing devices and data, and providing hosted desktops from centralized data centers. The solution involves virtualization software, management tools, backup agents, and thin clients to access virtual desktop environments.
MT23 Benefits of Modular Computing from Data Center to Branch OfficeDell EMC World
IT modernization, simplified management and cost reduction initiatives have propelled an industry shift to modular computing models from "one size fits all" approaches. In this session, we discuss how you can leverage innovative Modular Infrastructure solutions from Dell EMC to transform your environment- gaining greater control and efficiency while accelerating IT services- no matter the size and location of operations.
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) allows users to access a virtualized desktop hosted on a remote server over the internet. It provides flexibility for remote access and centralized management. Implementing VDI involves sizing server infrastructure, determining networking needs, and deploying virtual desktops on a hypervisor. Major vendors like VMware and Citrix provide VDI solutions consisting of client software, virtual desktop agents, connection servers, and administrative consoles.
MGT220 - Virtualisation 360: Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy, Products, and...Louis Göhl
Learn about the Microsoft virtualisation strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud--and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualisation products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualisation products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualisation and management technologies.
This document discusses the need for IT efficiency in today's economy. It argues that efficiency can be achieved through consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, and workforce transformation. The document promotes Dell's Virtual Integrated System architecture and Advanced Infrastructure Manager tool as ways to deliver measurable value through innovation without vendor lock-in. It claims these solutions can provide high flexibility, low capital costs, and optimized IT management time.
MT48 A Flash into the future of storage…. Flash meets Persistent Memory: The...Dell EMC World
Several key technology trends are redefining the boundaries of the traditional storage infrastructure stack: In a rapidly changing world of system interconnects, emerging memory media, and storage semantics, Server Designers and Storage Architects are engaging and collaborating like never before to exploit breakthrough technology capabilities.
With the backdrop of Big Data volume, Cloud Data ubiquity and IoT Data velocity, Application Developers are entering the Post-POSIX world of real-time, high-frequency, low latency data management frameworks.
This session will address key technology trends in Storage, Networking, and Compute, as they define the parameters of a Memory Centric Architecture (MCA) and the Next Generation Data Center.
Dell EMC VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 – powered by the universally trusted Hypermax/Enginuity operating system - continues to revolutionize the ways organizations are deploying, provisioning, protecting, and managing enterprise storage. This interactive session allows attendees to discuss new Dell EMC VMAX features and functionality in an open forum with specialists and engineering leaders. Bring your questions and top of mind discussion topics for this always-lively session.
Enterprise Desktops Well Served - a technical perspective on virtual desktopsMolten Technologies
This document discusses desktops as a service (DaaS) and the technical challenges of deploying virtual desktop solutions in an enterprise. It outlines recommendations for addressing challenges in areas like networking, storage, servers, offline access, and licensing. While DaaS currently delivers virtual desktop operating systems, the document predicts that technologies like rich internet applications will allow DaaS to move away from true desktop OSes. Further development is still needed for applications and cloud services to integrate seamlessly.
Reduce IT overhead by creating virtual environments for applications on IBM C...Principled Technologies
Creating an on-premises SDDC or IaaS solution can seem like a good idea, but deployment may require a heftier commitment from your admins than simply spinning up your workload on an IBM-VMware solution. Getting a fully functional Cloud Foundation solution on IBM Cloud required less time and effort from our admin than deploying a similar on-premises solution. If your organization is looking at cloud options, consider Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud to ease the deployment burden on your admins.
Optimize your virtualization_efforts_with_a_blade_infrastructureMartín Ríos
The document discusses the benefits of using a converged and intelligent blade-based infrastructure to optimize virtualization efforts. Key points include:
- Blade servers allow for high-density deployments that support the high performance workloads of virtualized environments. Embedded intelligence in blades can automate management tasks and provide alerts to improve uptime.
- A tightly integrated blade solution with automated storage and network management can simplify tasks like workload migration and optimizing resource utilization across infrastructure components.
- HP offers blade server solutions that leverage built-in intelligence to maximize efficiency of virtualized environments through features like automated monitoring and updating.
Server virtualization allows a single physical server to run multiple virtual servers by separating the hardware layer from the application layer. This improves server utilization rates, reduces power consumption and costs, and enhances business continuity. Virtualization provides benefits like more flexible resource allocation, simplified management, and decreased capital expenditures. It can help businesses improve processes and save money.
HP ProLiant servers are changing the way computing serves business by providing more efficient and powerful server options. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of server models to address a wide range of needs. Upgrading to the latest ProLiant servers allows for significant consolidation, reducing physical server footprint and energy costs while improving performance. ProLiant servers are also highly scalable to support continued virtualization and growth.
The document discusses how virtualization can help organizations achieve maximum value through improved power efficiency, reliability, and more integrated systems. It notes that digital data is growing exponentially and many companies will need to modify their data centers to handle this growth. Virtualization can help organizations reduce costs, improve service delivery, and better manage risk by consolidating servers, storage, and networking infrastructure. When combined with integrated service management tools, virtualization provides improved visibility, control, and automation of IT resources.
VMware: Delivering Desktops and Apps as a Service (Business Decision Maker)VMware
The document provides an overview of VMware's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platform for service providers. It discusses key market trends driving demand for DaaS like the rise of mobile devices and consumer technologies in the workplace. The VMware Horizon DaaS platform is presented as a purpose-built solution for delivering virtual desktops in the cloud with benefits like fast deployment, flexibility, and no upfront capital costs. Several use cases are described that demonstrate how the platform can help service providers capture opportunities in the growing DaaS market. Competitive offerings from Microsoft and Amazon are also referenced.
MT09 Using Dell’s HPC Cloud Solutions to maximize HPC utilization while reduc...Dell EMC World
Separate the hype from the reality of Cloud in HPC.
Building upon our Dell EMC HPC Portfolio, come deep dive into Dell’s hybrid cloud model for HPC. Built on private and public cloud models, Dell EMC's Hybrid HPC Cloud Solutions can help you optimize your CapEx and OpEx costs, while creating a flexible computing environment that adapts to dynamic HPC workloads, while ensuring resource availability. Maximize your RoI through a Hybrid HPC Cloud that enables your innovation and competitiveness.
VMware: Delivering Desktops and Apps as a ServiceVMware
The document provides an overview of VMware's Horizon DaaS platform for delivering desktops and applications as a service. The platform offers a unified management console to provision and manage different workspace models including RDS, VDI desktops, shared desktops, and published applications. It utilizes a multi-tenant service grid architecture for scalability across geographic locations and customers. Key differentiators of the platform include its multi-tenancy model, scalability to millions of desktops, and lower costs compared to alternatives.
MT25 Server technology trends, workload impacts, and the Dell Point of ViewDell EMC World
As you modernize your data center and become future ready, your server requirements are changing. With innovations such as software-defined storage and networking, your compute platform is now more important than ever. Discover how the highly innovative Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio is designed to meet the challenges of your future ready data center and how selecting the right compute platform can better enable you to deliver more efficient, secure and manageable IT for your business.
This Desktone hosted webinar features IDC's Enterprise Virtualization Software Sr. Analyst Ian Song will discussing how businesses can elevate their desktops to the cloud easily and affordably. Desktops are ripe for change. Windows 7 migrations, mobile devices and cost overruns are driving businesses to seek an affordable and flexible alternative. Until now, cost and complexity have been barriers to implementing traditional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions.
IDC and Desktone discuss the dynamics of the cloud, eliminating barriers to VDI, & benefits of moving desktops to the cloud. By moving desktops to a cloud-hosted service model, instead of an internally deployed and managed data center, companies can realize all the promised benefits of desktop virtualization—centralized management, improved data security and simplified deployment— without the exorbitant cost, limitations or hassles of VDI.
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides a virtual desktop solution that allows for centralized management of desktops, rapid deployment of desktop images, and a familiar end-user experience. It leverages VMware's proven virtualization platform to deliver enterprise-class scalability, management, and reliability to desktop environments. The document then demonstrates VMware VDI and discusses how customers have used it for desktop replacement, disaster recovery, and mobile workforces.
MT12 - SAP solutions from Dell – from your Datacenter to the CloudDell EMC World
SAP HANA has accelerated the pace of innovation – an in-memory platform that runs analytics applications smarter, business processes faster, and data infrastructures simpler. Join this session to learn how Dell EMC offers the broadest solutions for SAP HANA for any sized customer with the best performance and the most customer choices- from on-premise to hybrid to cloud.
The document discusses a survey of IT professionals that highlights the untapped benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and desktop as a service (DaaS) for mobile workforces. While most respondents were familiar with VDI and DaaS, few have adopted these solutions. The document examines the advantages and challenges of VDI, which provides centralized management but requires upfront infrastructure costs, and DaaS which outsources infrastructure maintenance and reduces costs through a subscription model. It suggests that a combination of VDI and DaaS along with multiple endpoint devices can optimize resources and productivity for organizations.
Smart Style Office for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure247 Invest
Smart Style Office is a virtual desktop infrastructure solution that allows IT administrators to remotely manage desktops running as virtual machines. It offers advantages like simplified management, improved security and data protection, flexibility for users to access desktops from any device, and support for an increasingly mobile workforce. Resellers can offer Smart Style Office to help customers with tasks like desktop migration, securing devices and data, and providing hosted desktops from centralized data centers. The solution involves virtualization software, management tools, backup agents, and thin clients to access virtual desktop environments.
MT23 Benefits of Modular Computing from Data Center to Branch OfficeDell EMC World
IT modernization, simplified management and cost reduction initiatives have propelled an industry shift to modular computing models from "one size fits all" approaches. In this session, we discuss how you can leverage innovative Modular Infrastructure solutions from Dell EMC to transform your environment- gaining greater control and efficiency while accelerating IT services- no matter the size and location of operations.
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) allows users to access a virtualized desktop hosted on a remote server over the internet. It provides flexibility for remote access and centralized management. Implementing VDI involves sizing server infrastructure, determining networking needs, and deploying virtual desktops on a hypervisor. Major vendors like VMware and Citrix provide VDI solutions consisting of client software, virtual desktop agents, connection servers, and administrative consoles.
MGT220 - Virtualisation 360: Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy, Products, and...Louis Göhl
Learn about the Microsoft virtualisation strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud--and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualisation products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualisation products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualisation and management technologies.
This document discusses the need for IT efficiency in today's economy. It argues that efficiency can be achieved through consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, and workforce transformation. The document promotes Dell's Virtual Integrated System architecture and Advanced Infrastructure Manager tool as ways to deliver measurable value through innovation without vendor lock-in. It claims these solutions can provide high flexibility, low capital costs, and optimized IT management time.
MT48 A Flash into the future of storage…. Flash meets Persistent Memory: The...Dell EMC World
Several key technology trends are redefining the boundaries of the traditional storage infrastructure stack: In a rapidly changing world of system interconnects, emerging memory media, and storage semantics, Server Designers and Storage Architects are engaging and collaborating like never before to exploit breakthrough technology capabilities.
With the backdrop of Big Data volume, Cloud Data ubiquity and IoT Data velocity, Application Developers are entering the Post-POSIX world of real-time, high-frequency, low latency data management frameworks.
This session will address key technology trends in Storage, Networking, and Compute, as they define the parameters of a Memory Centric Architecture (MCA) and the Next Generation Data Center.
Dell EMC VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 – powered by the universally trusted Hypermax/Enginuity operating system - continues to revolutionize the ways organizations are deploying, provisioning, protecting, and managing enterprise storage. This interactive session allows attendees to discuss new Dell EMC VMAX features and functionality in an open forum with specialists and engineering leaders. Bring your questions and top of mind discussion topics for this always-lively session.
Enterprise Desktops Well Served - a technical perspective on virtual desktopsMolten Technologies
This document discusses desktops as a service (DaaS) and the technical challenges of deploying virtual desktop solutions in an enterprise. It outlines recommendations for addressing challenges in areas like networking, storage, servers, offline access, and licensing. While DaaS currently delivers virtual desktop operating systems, the document predicts that technologies like rich internet applications will allow DaaS to move away from true desktop OSes. Further development is still needed for applications and cloud services to integrate seamlessly.
Reduce IT overhead by creating virtual environments for applications on IBM C...Principled Technologies
Creating an on-premises SDDC or IaaS solution can seem like a good idea, but deployment may require a heftier commitment from your admins than simply spinning up your workload on an IBM-VMware solution. Getting a fully functional Cloud Foundation solution on IBM Cloud required less time and effort from our admin than deploying a similar on-premises solution. If your organization is looking at cloud options, consider Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud to ease the deployment burden on your admins.
Optimize your virtualization_efforts_with_a_blade_infrastructureMartín Ríos
The document discusses the benefits of using a converged and intelligent blade-based infrastructure to optimize virtualization efforts. Key points include:
- Blade servers allow for high-density deployments that support the high performance workloads of virtualized environments. Embedded intelligence in blades can automate management tasks and provide alerts to improve uptime.
- A tightly integrated blade solution with automated storage and network management can simplify tasks like workload migration and optimizing resource utilization across infrastructure components.
- HP offers blade server solutions that leverage built-in intelligence to maximize efficiency of virtualized environments through features like automated monitoring and updating.
Server virtualization allows a single physical server to run multiple virtual servers by separating the hardware layer from the application layer. This improves server utilization rates, reduces power consumption and costs, and enhances business continuity. Virtualization provides benefits like more flexible resource allocation, simplified management, and decreased capital expenditures. It can help businesses improve processes and save money.
HP ProLiant servers are changing the way computing serves business by providing more efficient and powerful server options. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of server models to address a wide range of needs. Upgrading to the latest ProLiant servers allows for significant consolidation, reducing physical server footprint and energy costs while improving performance. ProLiant servers are also highly scalable to support continued virtualization and growth.
This document compares Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System to other enterprise storage virtualization platforms. It summarizes that Hitachi's solution delivers enterprise-class storage virtualization to help manage more data more efficiently at higher performance and service levels with lower operating costs. It can reduce operating costs and increase value by simplifying storage management and enabling greater scalability. It also helps maximize the return on existing storage assets and reduces risks while maximizing availability.
The document compares Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 and other storage virtualization platforms. It summarizes that VSP G1000 offers enterprise-class storage virtualization to help manage data more efficiently at higher performance and lower costs than alternatives. It delivers features like active-active support across data centers, simplified management across vendors through a single interface, high availability, and accelerated innovation through non-disruptive upgrades. The document concludes that VSP G1000 can transform IT infrastructure into a flexible, cost-effective platform for business innovation and growth.
This document provides a summary of a white paper about implementing the server virtualization technology Hyper-V. It describes how Hyper-V can: reduce physical server infrastructure needs and costs by consolidating workloads; preserve performance of business services; improve backup/recovery reliability and simplify disaster recovery; and help IT manage applications that support core business operations. The document then provides more details about what server virtualization and Hyper-V are, and how Hyper-V can reduce costs by increasing server utilization rates compared to physical servers.
Global data is on the rise, in terms of scale, complexity & functionality, paving a way for data centers to be more intuitive, coherent, holistic, & easily accessible.
This document discusses why VMware is the best choice for server virtualization over other solutions. It provides several key advantages of VMware:
1) VMware vSphere is the most trusted virtualization platform due to its secure and reliable hypervisor architecture that is purpose-built for virtualization, unlike competitors that rely on general-purpose operating systems.
2) vSphere is proven to support business-critical applications requiring high availability and performance through features like HA, DR, and workload optimization.
3) vSphere delivers the lowest total cost of ownership through reduced hardware costs, simple management, and automation that decreases operational expenses.
The IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud white paper provides an overview of the platform and its advantages for enterprises. It discusses how the solution combines servers, storage, networking, and software into an optimized unified architecture. The paper highlights how the platform delivers outstanding performance through its converged networking and scalable architecture. It also emphasizes how the solution provides reliability through redundancy and quality support from IBM.
The document discusses the increasing complexity of distributed computing infrastructures and argues that consolidation onto IBM's zEnterprise platform can help simplify infrastructure management, lower costs, and improve performance and reliability. Specifically:
1) Infrastructure complexity has increased to the point of hindering businesses, as managing many distributed servers running at low utilization becomes difficult.
2) Consolidating workloads through virtualization is needed to regain control, and zEnterprise allows consolidation of Linux, Java, and mainframe workloads on a single system.
3) Running Oracle databases on zEnterprise could improve performance and flexibility while lowering costs through improved utilization and licensing savings.
VMware provides several technology extensions for ISVs to extend their product capabilities in virtual and cloud environments. These include vSphere client plugins, SRM SRA adapters, VAAI plugins, and vCO plugins. These integration points allow ISVs to integrate their solutions into the VMware ecosystem to deliver value to customers through increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved performance, and ensuring SLAs are met.
By upgrading from the legacy solution we tested to the new Intel processor-based Dell and VMware solution, you could do 18 times the work in the same amount of space. Imagine what that performance could mean to your business: Consolidate workloads from across your company, lower your power and cooling bills, and limit datacenter expansion in the future, all while maintaining a consistent user experience—the list of potential benefits is huge.
Try running DPACK, which can help you identify bottlenecks in your environment and inform you about your current performance needs. Then consider how the consolidation ratio we proved could be helpful for your company. The Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730 solution with VMware vSphere and Dell Storage SC4020, also powered by Intel, could be the right destination for your upgrade journey.
Learn about Virtualization Performance on the IBM PureFlex System. the white paper shows that the IBM PureFlex system can deliver VM consolidation in a heterogeneous, self-contained environment capable of impressive levels of throughput performance. It can dramatically reduce time to production for virtualized data center application operations, providing multiple compute and operating system platforms, advanced storage, and integrated networking in a single manageable system.
HP announced Project Voyager, a multi-year initiative to transform the server industry through innovation. As part of this, HP introduced the ProLiant Gen8 servers which include over 150 design innovations focused on improved manageability, energy efficiency, and reliability. ProLiant Gen8 servers provide advantages for both customers and HP partners such as increased performance, lower costs, and new revenue opportunities. Analysts and customers have praised ProLiant Gen8 for these benefits.
X-Pod for Citrix VDI on UCS with ISE 700 Hybrid Storage ArrayX-IO Technologies
Validated reference architecture for Citrix XenDesktop on Cisco UCS with X-IO's Hybrid Storage Array. This document covers performance differences between XenDesktop 7.5 MCS and PVS provisioning services.
Virtualization Of Share Point Products And Technologies White PaperJoe Honan
This document discusses virtualizing Microsoft SharePoint servers using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. It outlines the benefits of virtualization for SharePoint like reduced hardware costs, increased server utilization, and improved manageability. It then describes the different SharePoint server roles and analyzes which are best suited for virtualization, with the Web server role being the most commonly virtualized. The document provides guidance on virtualizing specific roles and sample virtualization models.
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1. The business case for virtualization
Reduce capital and operational costs and increase agility
with an integrated HP virtualization solution with VMware.
2. Table of contents
Data center challenges grow steeper by the day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Pooling and sharing resources helps you overcome the challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
HP and VMware offer a complete virtualization solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Your virtualization opportunities span four key areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Still investigating the benefits of a virtualized environment? Here are some
of the ways you can save. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Capital cost savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Operational cost savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
To understand the business case, explore this virtualization scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Why HP? Here are some of the key reasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
HP offers a complete solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
HP addresses critical IT initiatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
HP is a leader in server and storage virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
HP has the expertise to make it all work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Let’s get started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The business case is clear:
Virtualization can help you save
money, increase IT agility and
improve business outcomes.
Are you capitalizing on these
opportunities?
3. Data center challenges
grow steeper by the day.
In today’s competitive global economy, your business
needs to be poised to respond faster to market changes,
new customer demands and growth opportunities. To
do this, you need an agile IT infrastructure that is built
to deliver better business outcomes.
At the same time, you have to hold the line on rising
data center costs. One way to do this is to increase the
utilization of information technology (IT) assets, including
servers and storage devices. In today’s enterprise data
centers, for example, it’s not uncommon to find servers
with utilization rates as low as 5 to 15 percent, and
storage with utilization rates of 50 percent.
And then there’s the issue of rising energy expenditures.
As you fill your data center with storage, more servers,
and higher density servers, power and cooling costs
can threaten to break your budget. These are all
challenges that virtualization addresses.
Pooling and sharing resources helps
you overcome the challenges.
Virtualization enables you to pool and share IT
resources to better serve the business. With new,
innovative HP technology—such as HP Virtual Connect
modules and HP Thermal Logic cooling—you can now
pool and share network connections and power and
cooling resources, in addition to server and storage
resources.
From a business perspective, the pooling and sharing
of IT resources allows IT supply to keep pace with
fluctuating demand. From a cost perspective, pooling
and sharing helps you increase the utilization of IT
assets and pack more computing and storage capacity
into the same space. Storage area network (SAN)
storage, for instance, is typically only 50 percent
utilized in a non-virtualized environment. That increases
to 80 percent in a virtualized environment.
This all contributes to bottom-line business benefits.
Virtualization helps you reduce the total cost of
ownership of IT assets—in terms of both capital
expenses and operating expenses—by enabling
greater use of your physical resources.
A virtualized environment increases flexibility because
a diverse range of resources can be added, changed
and moved as needed, to meet shifts in business
demand. Resources can be quickly scaled up or down
based on changing workloads. Virtualization tech-
niques also improve resiliency by simplifying backup,
failover and disaster recovery solutions.
So the benefits are clear. But how do you get there?
In short, look to HP and VMware for your complete,
end-to-end virtualization solution.
3
Achieving the benefits: Publicis
Groupe
Virtualization with HP
BladeSystem, HP StorageWorks
HP Insight Control, and VMware
is helping Publicis Groupe
reduce costs and create an IT
infrastructure that supports its
business growth. The company’s
virtualization solution includes HP
ProLiant BladeSystem servers, HP
StorageWorks storage products,
HP Insight Control management
tools and VMware ESX Server
software. With its virtualization
solution in place, Publicis Groupe
has reduced operational costs in
its data centers by millions of U.S.
dollars, cut server deployment
times to fewer than 30 minutes
and increased system
availability.
4. HP and VMware
offer a complete
virtualization solution.
To help you capitalize on your virtualization opportuni-
ties, HP offers a complete, integrated virtualization
solution. This solution leverages HP ProLiant and
BladeSystem servers, HP StorageWorks disk arrays,
VMware technology, and virtualization management
tools and services.
This integrated HP virtualization solution puts your
organization on a predictable path to the broad
benefits of a total virtualized environment. Our solution
allows you to capitalize on virtualization opportunities
that stretch from the desktop to the data center.
Your virtualization opportunities span
four key areas.
Drawing on the capabilities of HP hardware and
software and VMware technology, forward-looking
organizations are realizing the benefits of virtualization
across four key areas:
• IT consolidation—With virtualization, you can
consolidate many physical servers into one virtual
server pool, similarly for storage. This can result in
a 10:1 or greater ratio of virtual servers on a single
physical server. This helps you stop physical server
and storage sprawl and solve the problem of devices
that are underutilized, consume too much space, and
cost too much to power, cool and maintain.
4
Virtualizing a server
environment can
result in significant
cost savings. Often
virtualization leads
to total savings
across capital and
operating costs of
up to 50 percent
or more.
• Development and testing—Virtualization can also
improve the efficiency of your test and development
environment. With virtualization, you can run multiple
operating systems and versions on fewer servers and
workstations. This helps you support complex
development and testing environments with limited
resources.
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)— With VDI,
a desktop operating system is hosted on a virtual
machine running on a centralized server. VDI
provides your end users with all the functionality
of a stand-alone desktop plus features that increase
security, decrease cost and provide high reliability. It
is an alternative to the more traditional server-based
computing models offered by our competitors.
• Disaster recovery/high availability—Virtualization
allows your company to create a high availability
and disaster recovery plan for your IT infrastructure
based on virtual machine environments. By allowing
virtual machines to be easily replicated, backed up
and moved from one machine to another, virtuali-
zation greatly simplifies recovery in the event of
system failure or even planned downtime.
Figure 1. Virtualization adoption model
Application/Application/
customer
maturity
increases
Advanced
adoption models
Virtual desktop
infrastructure
Disaster recovery/
high availability
Initial adoption models
Test and
development
IT
consolidation
5. Still investigating the
benefits of a virtualized
environment? Here are
some of the ways you
can save.
When you virtualize your company’s infrastructure,
you put yourself on the path to two types of savings:
capital cost savings and operational cost savings.
Capital cost savings
Capital cost savings come in the form of reduced
expenses for hardware acquisition and data center
real estate. Examples of these potential savings are
shown in rows A–D of Table 1, which illustrates a
business case scenario for virtualization with VMware.
A. Server hardware—Moving to a virtual environment
helps you cut capital costs by reducing the number
of physical servers necessary to support your in-
frastructure. In our business-case scenario, server
utilization averages less than ten percent. With vir-
tualization, server consolidation ratios are typically
in the range of 8:1 to 15:1. This leads to a reduc-
tion in expenditures that is significantly greater
than 50 percent.
HP virtualization solutions help you achieve these
sorts of gains by leveraging VMware software,
VMware-certified HP servers and advanced
management tools, such as HP Insight Control
Environment (ICE), to allow workloads to be
consolidated onto fewer servers. In addition, HP
BladeSystem servers help you gain even greater
flexibility from your virtualized environment and
pack more computing power into the same
footprint.
B. Storage hardware—With a virtualized environ-
ment, you can reduce your capital expenditures
for storage devices by consolidating data storage.
As part of a VMware implementation, storage
consolidation is a natural progression.
To help you virtualize your storage environment,
HP StorageWorks SANs deliver pools of shared
storage that enable greater server consolidation.
Implementing an HP SAN in a non-virtualized
environment can increase storage utilization from
less than 25 percent to as much as 50 percent.
And when you combine HP StorageWorks SANs
with HP servers running VMware, you can
increase utilization to as high as 80 percent.
In our scenario, the costs of implementing new
SANs is offset by the cost savings associated with
reduced server purchases.
C. Network hardware—With fewer physical servers
in a virtualized environment, you need less network
switching infrastructure. Our business-case scenario
assumes a greater than 70 percent reduction in
capital expenditures for network hardware.
D. Data center space savings—Virtualization helps
you make better use of valuable data center real
estate. It allows you to remove servers from your
environment to open up data center floor space.
In our sample consolidation project, consolidating
100 servers to 13 servers yields over 60 percent
cost savings. The total server footprint is reduced
to one 42U rack.
Virtualization also helps you avoid the high costs of
data center expansions. With data center building
cost estimates ranging from $800 per square foot
to a projected $5,000 per square foot in 20091
,
this is an important area for cost savings. This is
especially true when you consider that each rack
of servers requires approximately 6.52
square feet.
In addition, an ancillary benefit of virtualization is the
possible redeployment of some of your existing infra-
structure as part of a disaster recovery solution. This is
made easier using HP StorageWorks and VMware
solutions. Redeployment provides additional capital
cost savings that can help fund disaster recovery
solutions.
To enable your consolidation efforts, HP offers a range
of VMware-certified servers and storage, including DL-
series servers the HP BladeSystem, the HP StorageWorks
family of MSA, EVA and XP arrays, which can help
you reduce the overall data-center space required.
In fact, the HP BladeSystem allows you to more than
double the number of servers in the same physical
space required by conventional rackmount servers.
Combining an HP BladeSystem with an HP EVA array
allows you to make more efficient use of your data
center real estate.
1
Anthes, Gary, “Data Centers Get a Makeover”, Computerworld news article,
published November 1, 2005. http://www.computerworld.com/database
topics/data/datacenter/story/0,10801,97021,00.html?SKC=home97021
2
HP ProLiant Rack 10000 Series at 23.62” wide by 39.37” deep.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/racks/100
00series.html
5
In our scenario for a virtualized environment,
100 physical servers are reduced to a total of
13 physical servers running 100 virtual machines.
This level of virtualization yields savings of greater
than 60 percent over a three-year period.
6. Operational cost savings
In a virtualized environment, operational cost savings
are also substantial. These savings stem from reductions
in power and cooling costs, management costs and the
costs associated with server downtime. Examples of these
potential savings are shown in rows E–F of Table 1.
E. Power and cooling—Virtualization can help you
hold the line on rapidly rising power and cooling
costs. These savings stem from reductions in the
number of physical servers in your environment.
The total power and cooling savings from removing
just one server from your environment is $835
per year (power savings of $239 per year and
reduced cooling costs of $596 per year). And
consider this: The one-year power and cooling
cost savings resulting from consolidating six servers
to one (an easily attainable ratio) will fully cover
the cost of a new one-processor server.
To extend your power and cooling savings, unique
HP technologies, such as HP Thermal Logic and
Insight Power Management allow you to cut your
energy bill when compared to conventional
servers. In fact, HP c-Class blades with HP Thermal
Logic use 20 to 27 percent less power per server
than IBM BladeCenter-H. What’s more, c-Class
blades generate less heat due to the lower power
consumption, requiring 31 to 60 percent less air to
be pushed into the data center.
HP Insight Power Manager, meanwhile, helps
you increase efficiency. This integrated power
monitoring and management application extends
the capacity of your data center by enabling you
to reduce the amount of power and cooling
required for HP ProLiant servers.
F. Server provisioning costs and time savings—
Virtualizing allows you to provision servers in less
time, which in turn leads to reduced infrastructure
management costs. In the example shown here,
adding 33 servers per year to a 100-server environ-
ment as part of a server refresh, where one-third of
the server environment is replaced annually, results
in 330 hours of provisioning at an average of ten
hours per server. This ten-fold reduction in
provisioning time allows you to recover approxi-
mately 300 hours, or 7.5 weeks of time, to apply
to more strategic IT projects that can help your
business grow.
HP Insight Control Environment helps you save time
by streamlining server provisioning and manage-
ment. Based on HP Systems Insight Manager and
ProLiant Essentials software, the Insight Control
Environment gives you a single view of your physical
and virtual resources. It delivers comprehensive
health and performance monitoring, remote control,
vulnerability scanning and patch management. ICE
includes HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment
Pack (RDP), a server deployment solution that facili-
tates the installation, configuration and deployment
of high volumes of servers, and enables the rapid
replacement and addition of new servers.
HP also offers migration tools to make it easy to
move resources between and within your virtual
and physical environments. We have great virtual-
to-physical and physical-to-virtual tools here that are
simple to use. To further accelerate provisioning,
HP Virtual Connect modules virtualize the connec-
tions between the HP BladeSystem c-Class servers
and your local area networks (LANs) and SANs,
enabling quick, transparent server changes.
G. Disaster recovery costs—Virtualization can also
help you keep your business up and running during
disasters and other disruptive events. Reducing the
number of servers through consolidation reduces the
number of servers that must be restored in case of
disaster. This shortens recovery times and reduces
losses associated with downed servers.
H. Unplanned downtime costs—By enabling faster
recovery from unplanned downtime and allowing
for better management of planned downtime,
virtualization helps you further reduce indirect
costs. With a VMware solution, server availability
can be better managed by implementing virtual
machines so that workloads can be balanced and
proactively moved from overloaded hosts, and
virtual machines can be quickly restored on other
servers if a host experiences hardware failure.
This scenario projects that costs associated with
unplanned downtime may be reduced by up to
75 percent.
I–K. VMware software, services and training—Some
additional costs are associated with a VMware
consolidation that otherwise would not have been
incurred in a non-virtualized environment. These
costs, for software, planning and implementation,
and training, are easily offset by the savings
outlined above.
HP Services offers end-to-end expertise that helps
you gain more value from your virtualized environ-
ments. From initial assessment and design to ongoing
support, HP Services is your single point of contact
and accountability. With more than 69,000
services professionals and over 4,000 ITIL-certified
professionals operating in 170 countries, HP
Services has an extensive track record of helping
customers support their changing business needs.
These are just some of the ways virtualization drives cost
savings. Server virtualization often leads to total savings
across capital and operating costs of 50 percent or
more over a three-year period. You also can expect a
fast return on your investment. Total payback time for
virtualization projects is typically less than one year
due to the significant capital and operational savings.
3
Power cost savings = .67*(.5kW)*(24h/1day)*(365day/1year)=$238.58
4
Cooling cost savings = .8*.67*(1.25)*(1.25)*(.5kW)*(.0813/kWh)*
(24h/1day)(365day/1year) =$596.46
5
Removing 6 servers x $835 = $5,010 annual power and cooling savings.
Subtract power consumed by new 1P server = $835. Dollars to cover new
server purchase at $4,175 exceeds cost of new server at $4,000.
6
7. To understand the
business case, explore
this virtualization
scenario.
To understand the business case for virtualization,
it helps to compare the costs of a physical server
environment to a virtualized server environment that
meets the same business requirements.
This is the case in Table 1. It compares two scenarios
for a 100-server physical environment. The first
scenario maintains the status quo of 100 physical
servers. The second scenario shows what happens
when those 100 servers have been virtualized with
VMware. Both scenarios assume a three-year
replacement cycle where one-third of the infrastructure
is replaced every year.
In the virtualized environment, the 100 physical servers
are reduced to a total of 13 physical servers running
100 virtual machines. The virtualization yields savings
of greater than 60 percent over a three-year period.
7
8. 8
Year 1
Capital cost savings
Server hardware
Storage
Network
Data center space
Operational cost savings
Power and cooling
Server provisioning
Disaster recovery
Unplanned downtime
VMware software
VMware services
VMware training
Totals
Year 2
Capital cost savings
Server hardware
Storage
Network
Data center space
Operational cost savings
Power and cooling
Server provisioning
Disaster recovery
Unplanned downtime
VMware software
VMware services
VMware training
Totals
Year 3
Capital cost savings
Server hardware
Storage
Network
Data center space
Operational cost savings
Power and cooling
Server provisioning
Disaster recovery
Unplanned downtime
VMware software
VMware services
VMware training
Totals
3-year totals
* These projected costs savings are derived from the VMware TCO Calculator, available online at www.vmware.com/products/vi/calculator.html.
154,167
29,193
12,000
11,200
53,025
44,256
6,618
262,200
—
—
—
572,659
45,067
21,767
2,667
3,760
8,833
3,319
1,654
65,400
74,750
106,908
6,465
340,590
109,100
7,426
9,333
7,440
44,192
40,937
4,964
196,800
(74,750)
(106,908)
(6,465)
232,069
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
Table 1. Projected costs savings with virtualization with VMware*
169,584
32,112
13,200
12,320
58,328
48,682
7,280
288,420
—
—
—
629,926
49,574
23,944
2,934
4,136
9,716
3,651
1,819
71,940
18,688
—
—
186,402
120,010
8,168
10,266
8,184
48,612
45,031
5,461
216,480
(18,688)
—
—
443,524
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
186,542
35,323
14,520
13,552
64,161
53,550
8,008
317,262
—
—
—
692,918
1,895,503
54,531
26,338
3,227
4,550
10,688
4,016
2,001
79,134
18,688
—
—
203,173
730,165
132,011
8,985
11,293
9,002
53,473
49,534
6,007
238,128
(18,688)
—
—
489,745
1,165,338
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
As-is scenario expenses Virtualization scenario expenses Savings
9. 9
Breakeven excluding indirect costs of downtime
Without VMware
With VMware
Capital costs Hardware costs
Operating costs
Capital costs Hardware costs
Costs of VMware
Total VMware implementation cost
Operating costs
Net savings (expenditure) with VMware
Table 2. Breakeven excluding indirect costs of downtime
In this scenario, the total payback period for the initial virtualization phase is less than nine months when indirect downtime savings are excluded.
Month 0
195,360
69,501
188,123
257,624
(62,264)
Month 1
9,040
1,326
7,714
(54,550)
Month 2
9,040
1,326
7,714
(46,836)
Month 3
9,040
1,326
7,714
(39,122)
Month 4
9,040
1,326
7,714
(31,408)
Month 5
9,040
1,326
7,714
(23,694)
Month 6
9,040
1,326
7,714
(15,980)
Month 7
9,040
1,326
7,714
(8,265)
Month 8
9,040
1,326
7,714
(551)
Month 9
9,040
1,326
7,714
7,163
Breakeven including indirect costs of downtime
Without VMware
With VMware
Capital costs Hardware costs
Operating costs
Capital costs Hardware costs
Costs of VMware
Total VMware implementation cost
Operating costs
Net savings (expenditure) with VMware
Table 3. Breakeven including indirect costs of downtime
In this scenario, the total payback period for the initial virtualization phase is less than three months when indirect downtime savings are included.
Month 0
195,360
69,501
188,123
257,624
(62,264)
Month 1
31,422
6,914
24,528
(37,736)
Month 2
31,422
6,914
24,528
(13,209)
Month 3
31,422
6,914
24,528
11,319
10. Why HP? Here are some
of the key reasons.
Around the world, thousands of IT organizations are
working with HP to turn rigid data centers into agile,
virtualized environments. Here are some of the reasons
why these forward-looking companies are choosing to
work with HP to virtualize IT infrastructure.
HP offers a complete solution.
With HP, you gain an end-to-end, tightly integrated
virtualization solution that incorporates everything you
need—hardware, software and services, including
planning, deployment and management. Additionally,
HP management software brings business level man-
agement capabilities such as application functionality
and performance testing, operations support, asset
tracking and change and configuration management
to virtualized environments.
HP addresses critical IT initiatives.
HP delivers the resources you need to put virtualization
to work for business-driven IT initiatives. These include
initiatives focused on IT consolidation, virtual desktop
infrastructure, disaster recovery/high availability, and
development and testing.
HP is a leader in server and storage
virtualization.
The HP portfolio of virtualization offerings has helped
thousands of companies achieve better business out-
comes. This portfolio includes leading HP ProLiant and
ProLiant BL series server blades for HP BladeSystem for
virtualization of your x86 environment. In addition,
we offer wide ranging partitioning solutions for HP
Integrity servers, so you can find the right virtualization
approach for your Integrity environment.
HP is also a leader in storage virtualization—we have
sold more than 30,000 virtual storage arrays. We
understand storage virtualization, and how you can
reduce your total cost of ownership with an HP SAN
using our Enterprise Virtual Arrays and XP Disk Arrays.
And HP client virtualization solutions, meanwhile,
deliver a cost-efficient desktop environment by con-
solidating many physical desktops onto a single server
or blade environment.
HP has the expertise to make it all
work.
Most importantly, HP has the services expertise to
deliver a comprehensive VMware solution to our
customers. HP is the only company to have earned
VMware’s Enterprise VMware Authorized Consultant
(EVAC) designation, which is the highest level of certi-
fication for delivering VMware virtualization services
available, and HP is the only worldwide VMware
Authorized Training Center (VATC). Contact HP Services
or HP channel partners to help you evaluate your
needs, plan your solution, deploy and operate your
virtualized environment.
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11. Let’s get started
Whether you have 10 servers, 100 servers or 1,000
servers, we can help you put virtualization solutions in
place to achieve savings, simplification and scalability
across your environment.
Get started today with our virtualization assessment
service. Through this service, we inventory and analyze
your current infrastructure and help you develop a
detailed business case based on your business needs.
To learn more, contact your local HP representative,
or visit www.hp.com/go/vmware.
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