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

Did you know that blade servers and virtualizationcandidates' for your virtual infrastructure
can be combined now to move forward in efforts toimplementation, mainly due to the limited Scalability of
consolidate and reduce the number of serversthese systems. For example the limited slots of
needed in the data center?network cards & memory slots in older blades
Customers use virtualization to help resolve a varietywere a real show stopper for using blades as the
of challenges. Many begin as part of a serverhardware platform for your virtualization environment.
consolidation strategy to reduce the purchase ofToday, the server virtualization technology on Blade
hardware and reduce management, But the benefitsServers can be an ideal solution for many customers
of virtualization go well beyond the reduction of TCOwith challenges such as; limitations of space, power,
(Total Cost of Ownership). The Virtualization can also& cooling in the Data Center.
help reduce the development cycle and deploymentBlades systems today is the solution, from the
of new applications. Furthermore, it can be used toenergy point of view, the most efficient, and some
increase the uptime of the systems and add morehardware vendors already have dared that blades
flexibility with all the advance features offered byspend up to 19% less energy than the traditional
virtualization vendors, which never deemed possible inmodel of 1U & 2U servers. Further more, Blades
a physical environment.can highly improve the wiring of the Data Center.
However, historically blades systems were not good