Viridity Demonstrates Energy Efficiency Gains from Virtualization
Posted on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 11:45 AM
This week, we are out at VMworld where we're demonstrating how Viridity EnergyCenter helps quantify x86 server virtualization improvements.
It's our belief that while virtualization certainly solves one set of data center challenges, if it's not implemented, monitored and managed properly, it can create another set of challenges. On example is increased power usage in concentrated areas of your data center that can cause your operational expenses to escalate and significantly hinder your ability to expand your IT capacity to meet your business demands.
By measuring actual power consumption dynamically - down to the IT device-level - and continuously monitoring your IT equipment’s utilization, Viridity EnergyCenter™ helps your data center gain energy improvements from your virtualized environment.
Please stop by and visit us at Booth 1319R to learn more about how Viridity EnergyCenter enhances x86 server virtualization environments in the following areas:
Virtualization Planning
- Identify consolidation candidates based on utilization and power consumption
Virtualization Design
- Increase density without creating power and cooling issues (“hot spots”)
- Understand how “motion” (moving workloads from one server cluster to another) will impact utilization and consumption, to avoid outages or wasted capacity
Measuring Virtualization Results
- Benchmark your data center utilization and power consumption performance before and after virtualization deployments at the device, rack, row or data center level