• Home
• Topics
• Server virtualization strategies and use cases
• Server consolidation with virtualization
• Alternative ways to consolidate your servers

Alternative ways to consolidate your servers

Storage - When you pool storage together into a Storage Area Network (SAN) or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device.

I/O - When you aggregate I/O devices into a single unit, such as an Ethernet switch module on the back of a blade server chassis.

Some people consider blade servers as a means of compute server consolidation, but unless you are implementing virtualization on the blades, you will still have the same number of physical servers. In fact, blade servers represent I/O consolidation.

Dig Deeper

This was first published in June 2007

More from Related TechTarget Sites

• VMware
• Windows Server
• Cloud computing
• Virtual Desktop
• Data Center

• VMware

  • Using VMware Fusion for Mac to get more from your Windows VM

    VMware Fusion for Mac is a boon for IT pros that work with various OSes. VMware Fusion 4, in particular, can create snapshots and allow a Windows VM to use built-in Mac devices.

  • VMware ESXi security FAQ: Guarding the hypervisor, hosts and more

    As the sole hypervisor of vSphere 5, you need to know the ins and outs of VMware ESXi, especially when it comes to securing the hypervisor and ESXi hosts.

  • Storing VMware ESXi syslog events on a remote Linux server

    Designating a remote Linux server to record VMware ESXi syslog events allows you to access that important information, even if the ESXi host crashes.

• Windows Server

  • Managing access control with Windows Rights Management Services

    Active Directory's Rights Management Services is a good way of managing access to data, but there are caveats.

  • Bringing Windows RDS to the web: Designing the DMZ

    Remote Desktop Gateway secures Internet access for Remote Desktop Services applications – if you set it up properly.

  • Deciding between blade and rack-mount gear for Windows Server 2008

    Are you looking for scalability or performance? It's important to understand your needs before choosing a Windows Server hardware solution.

• Cloud computing

  • Keys to integrated cloud application management

    Seamless cloud application management isn’t a pipe dream. By following a few steps, cloud admins can monitor cloud app performance from one interface.

  • Cloud infrastructure providers remain hot commodities

    Cloud infrastructure providers attracted acquisitive suitors last year. Profitable cloud vendors this year will catch the eye of telecoms.

  • Digging deeper into IBM SmartCloud for private clouds

    IBM SmartCloud services give enterprises some options to build private and hybrid clouds and may give IBM a chance to improve its lagging cloud image.

• Virtual Desktop

  • Defining VDI users: Who should really be using virtual desktops?

    To figure out whether your company really needs VDI, break down who your potential VDI users are and what exactly they need.

  • How virtual desktops enhance a virtualization disaster recovery strategy

    When disaster strikes a virtual infrastructure, it's a mad dash to get apps back on track. But with virtual desktops in your DR strategy, you won't be out of breath.

  • VMware vSphere Storage Appliance could lower the cost of small VDI

    Using the vSphere Storage Appliance with VMware View could help small VDI implementations save money up front and make it easier to grow.

• Data Center

  • HP previews ProLiant refresh as users eye Cisco UCS

    HP touts new management capabilities for the forthcoming Generation 8 of its ProLiant servers, but some users say they are already looking elsewhere.

  • DevOps, Opscode Chef automate online auction site’s private cloud

    A darling of the DevOps crowd, the Opscode Chef cloud configuration and automation tool is now the central point of IT control for MercadoLibre’s sprawling online auction site.

  • Data center experts push back on ASHRAE economizer requirements

    An addendum to the ASHRAE 90.1-2010 energy standard could ease energy efficiency requirements on anyone building or significantly expanding data centers in the U.S.

• About us
• Contact us
• Site index
• Privacy policy
• Advertisers
• Business partners
• Events
• Media kit
• TechTarget corporate site
• Reprints
• Site map