Server Virtualisation - Why Bother?

There are many reasons why 98% of the fortunecontaining the state of your server at the time of
1000 businesses have deployed Vmware for serverthe snapshot. If your server fails you need only
virtualisation. It is the product we will seee more of in"copy" and "paste" your server from the most
businesses and will even one day make it to therecent snapshot and simply press "go".
consumer market.This is particularly helpful as all the undocumented
Without doubt, the main reason I see virtualisationserver changes that happen over the months or
working for my customers is for business continuity.even years within an organisation are kept. You can
Disaster recovery is something all IT managers thinkbe sure the server will run EXACTLY like it was
about but not too many actually implement even thebefore any downtime. Plus you can run the server on
minimum requirements. So with the obvious benefitsany hardware platform as long as there are enough
of server consolidation, long term lower cost ofresources and the server has a hypervisor layer
ownership through resource optimisation virtualisationinstalled (20 Mins on a new box). No drivers, No
provides a great platform for disaster recovery.downloads, No hassle.
It is all due to encapsulation. This means the virtualVirtualisation is not the future, it is here now. If you
servers sitting on your hardware can be encapsulatedhave even only one server now virtualisation can
as a snapshot. These snapshots are essentially a fileprovide you with an affordable DRP solution.