Consolidation of Servers, Storage and Network
Sencilo can consolidate Servers, Storage and Network devices as an approach to the efficient usage of computer resources in order to reduce the total number of servers or server locations that an organization requires through the use of Virtualization Technology. The practice developed in response to the problem of server sprawl, a situation in which multiple, under-utilized servers take up more space and consume more resources than can be justified by their workload.
According to Tony Iams, Senior Analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc. in Port Chester, servers in many companies typically run at 15-20% of their capacity, which may not be a sustainable ratio in the current economic environment. Businesses are increasingly turning to server and storage consolidation as one means of cutting unnecessary costs and maximizing return on investment (ROI) in the data center. Of 518 respondents in a Gartner Group research study, six percent had conducted a server consolidation project, 61% were currently conducting one, and 28% were planning to do so in the immediate future.
Although consolidation can substantially increase the efficient use of resources, it may also result in complex configurations of data, applications, and servers that can be confusing for the average user to contend with. To alleviate this problem, Sencilo uses server virtualization that may be used to mask the details of server resources from users while optimizing resource sharing.
Virtualization is the masking of resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. The administrator uses a software application to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments. The virtual environments are sometimes called virtual private servers, but they are also known as partitions, guests, instances, containers or emulations.
Sencilo has been a leader in Server virtualization and sees it as part of an overall virtualization trend in enterprise IT that includes storage virtualization, network virtualization, and workload management. This trend is one component in the development of autonomic computing, in which the server environment will be able to manage itself based on perceived activity. Server virtualization can be used to eliminate server sprawl, to make more efficient use of server resources, to improve server availability, to assist in disaster recovery, testing and development, and to centralize server administration.
Virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is managed from a central console. Storage virtualization is commonly used in a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS). The management of storage devices can be tedious and time-consuming. Storage virtualization helps the storage administrator perform the tasks of backup, archiving, and recovery more easily, and in less time, by disguising the actual complexity of the SAN.
Sencilo can implement virtualization with software applications or by using hardware and software hybrid appliances. The technology can be placed on different levels of a network.
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