Blade Servers and Virtualization - How Can They Now Go Together?

Did you know that blade servers and virtualizationgood candidates' for your virtual infrastructure
can be combined now to move forward in effortsimplementation, mainly due to the limited Scalability
to consolidate and reduce the number of serversof these systems. For example the limited slots
needed in the data center?of network cards & memory slots in older
Customers use virtualization to help resolve ablades were a real show stopper for using blades
variety of challenges. Many begin as part of aas the hardware platform for your virtualization
server consolidation strategy to reduce theenvironment.
purchase of hardware and reduce management,Today, the server virtualization technology on
But the benefits of virtualization go well beyondBlade Servers can be an ideal solution for many
the reduction of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).customers with challenges such as; limitations of
The Virtualization can also help reduce thespace, power, & cooling in the Data Center.
development cycle and deployment of newBlades systems today is the solution, from the
applications. Furthermore, it can be used toenergy point of view, the most efficient, and
increase the uptime of the systems and addsome hardware vendors already have dared that
more flexibility with all the advance featuresblades spend up to 19% less energy than the
offered by virtualization vendors, which nevertraditional model of 1U & 2U servers. Further
deemed possible in a physical environment.more, Blades can highly improve the wiring of the
However, historically blades systems were notData Center.