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VMware vSphere is the most widely used and robust data center virtualization platform in the industry. It offers the best levels of performance and uptime , which are deemed a necessity by the most demanding data centers in the world.

VMware vSphere will help you to save money and provide you additional control over your computing system . You will be able to lighten the load of your IT group and can use just about any server hardware, operating system, and applications you like.

What is new in vSphere 4.1:

vCompute

• Memory Compression -Lessens memory contention and improves application performance.

• DRS Host Affinity – Set policies when using Dynamic Resource Scheduling to ideally keep an application residing on a specific server.

vStorage

• Storage I/O Control-Set storage quality of service preferences for each virtual machine to prioritize access to storage resources.

• Array Integration-use new storage protocols between vSphere and storage systems for quicker Storage vMotion events and virtual machine set up.

vNetwork

• Network I/O Control-Set network quality of service priorities per flow type for prioritized access to network resources.

Scalability

• More virtual hosts per cluster: 3,000.

• More physical servers per vCenter Server instance: 1,000.

• More virtual machines per vCenter Server instance: 10,000 powered on:15,000 registered.

Availability

• VMware vMotion – Improvements to vMotion allow quicker response and availability enabling up to eight vMotion migration events in parallel.

Security

• Active Directory integration-Single sign-on feature for user authentication at the vSphere host for centralized user control. Easily assign privileges to users or groups and deploy out permission rules across hosts.

VMware server virtualization solutions can help you to make the most of your IT assets. It can help to reduce the capital expenditure of the data center by as much as 60%! Reductions in real estate, cooling, and power usage can help you to cut energy costs by as much as 80%!

If you are not already deploying server virtualization with shared storage, you should know that it can dramatically cut costs. An excellent way to start is to have a server consolidation review completed which will give you an idea of what types of capital and operational cost savings you can get with a server virtualization upgrade.

Find out additional information about the benefits of server virtualization technology as well as full data center virtualization from your local information technology value added reseller, who can also help you with the upgrade.