Reduce Energy Costs and Go Green with VMware Virtualization
Reduce the energy demands of your data center by right-sizing your IT infrastructure through consolidation and dynamic management of computer capacity across a pool of servers. VMware virtualization delivers the resources your infrastructure needs and enables you to:
- Reduce energy costs by 80-90%
- Power down servers without affecting applications or users
- Green your datacenter while decreasing costs and improving service levels
Save Energy by Eliminating Underutilization and Server Sprawl
VMware customers reduce their energy costs and consumption by as much as 80-90% through virtualization. Most servers and desktops today are in use only 8-15% of the time they are powered on, yet most hardware consumes 60-90% of the normal workload power even when idle. VMware virtualization has advanced resource and memory management features that enable consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more which increase hardware utilization to as much as 85%. Once virtualized, a new feature of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) called Distributed Power Management (DPM) monitors utilization across the datacenter and intelligently powers off unneeded physical servers without impacting applications and users. With VMware, you can dramatically reduce energy consumption without sacrificing reliability or service levels.
Reduce the Environmental Impact of IT
Beside the company bottom line effect, virtualization is positively impacting the environment. VMware estimates that 1.2 million workloads run in VMware virtual machines, which represents an aggregate power savings of about 8.5 billion kWh—more electricity than is consumed annually in all of New England for heating, ventilation and cooling.
While this is a good start, there are plenty of opportunities for saving even more energy, and money. Analyst firm IDC3 states that the un-utilized server capacity equates to approximately:
- $140 billion
- 3 years supply of hardware
- More than 20 million servers
At 4 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually per server, these un-utilized servers produce a total of more than 80 million tons of CO2 per year. This is more than is emitted from the country of Thailand and more than half of ALL countries in South America.