VMware vSphere is the most widely used and reliable data center virtualization platform in the industry. It gives the best levels of responsiveness and manageability , which are required by the largest data centers in the world.

VMware vSphere will help you to cut capital and operating costs and give you additional manageability over your IT infrastructure. You will be able to lighten the load of your IT personnel and can use just about any server platform , operating system, and applications you like.

What is new in vSphere 4.1:

vCompute

  • Memory Compression -Reduces memory contention and improves application performance.

  • DRS Host Affinity – Set policies when using Dynamic Resource Scheduling to preferentially keep an application operating on a specific server.

vStorage

  • Storage I/O Control-Set storage quality of service priorities for each virtual machine to prioritize availability of storage resources.

  • Array Integration-use new storage protocols in between vSphere and storage boxes for quicker Storage vMotion events and virtual machine provisioning.

vNetwork

  • Network I/O Control-Set network quality of service preferences per flow type for prioritized access to network resources.

Scalability

  • More virtual hosts per cluster: 3,000.

  • More physical machines per vCenter Server instance: 1,000.

  • More virtual hosts per vCenter Server instance: 10,000 powered on:15,000 registered.

 

Availability

  • VMware vMotion – Upgrades to vMotion allow quicker response and availability allowing up to eight vMotion migration events in parallel.

Security

  • Active Directory integration-Single sign-on capability for user authentication at the vSphere host for centralized user control. Easily assign privileges to users or groups and roll out permission rules across hosts.

VMware server virtualization solutions can help you to make the most of your IT assets. It can help to reduce the capital expenditure of the data center by as much as 60%! Reductions in real estate, cooling, and power usage can help you to reduce energy costs by as much as 80%!

If you are not already deploying server virtualization with shared storage, you should know that it can dramatically reduce ongoing expenses. An excellent way to start is to have a server consolidation review completed which will give you an idea of what types of capital and operational cost reductions you can get with a server virtualization upgrade.

Find out additional information regarding the benefits of server virtualization technology as well as full data center virtualization from your local information technology value added reseller, who can also help you with the upgrade.