bradL Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 What is exactly the purpose of virtualizing servers? I've heard people talk about them but no reason why. are there any benefits from it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bit Hunter Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 A virtual server is a server that can host multiple virtual machine at ones. It is used today to merge multiple servers into one physical machine. By this you can extract more power from a single single machine, while saving floor space, not to talk about electrical bill. Lets say you have 10 virtual server in a single physical server, you only need a 10th of the floor space, and you will pay only 10th of the electrical bill for servers. A server in most cases only uses like 5-20% of its capacity. By combining then info one single physical machine you can extract as much as 80% of its power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Because if you were to audit any comms room or datacenter in any office in the land, you would find a room full of very powerful machines running 24/7 doing very little. By virtualizing you can take several apps that need to be installed independantly and run them on the same hardware, so your machine idles at 50% usage, not 5% usuage. This saves on power, space, air-conditioning etc. For a home user this allows you to install 2-3 linux distro's on your computer without loosing windows or similar, so you can test different OS's and listen to your music at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradL Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Oh ok thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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