We all know that using virtualization to go green and conserve energy and space is a hot topic of today. Colleges and Universities are no exception. One public university was ahead of its time, using VMware to pursue these objectives in 2003.
The College of Humanities needed to upgrade its IT infrastructure, but had no room to do the necessary expansion. After deploying the VMware platform, the College was able to meet its upgrade needs with 54 virtual machines running on three host servers. The College avoided $160,000 in hardware costs and cut server provisioning from three weeks down to five minutes.
“Before the upgrade, we lacked the physical space, cooling and power needed,” said Tim Smith, director of Information Systems for the College of Humanities. “We had some PC-class hardware with no failover disks, no secondary power and no SAN connectivity. We wanted to grow, but didn’t have the resources. The VMware virtual machines worked great. They stayed up and worked well. Believe the buzz about VMware virtualization. It works! It gives us the ability to add new servers without even thinking about the hardware costs. It allows my staff to think more creatively.”
A familiar success story, just not for 5 years ago! Find out how other high education institutions are using VMware: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/
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