ID:

BM34 (VMworld 2007)

Session:

Managing Infrastructure Complexity and Energy Efficiency in a Virtualized Data Center

Presenter:

APC

As cost of energy skyrockets and facility capacities rapidly fall behind demand, the challenge today has become one of achieving the greatest computing throughput per watt of consumed power within the smallest possible footprint. A wave of new technologies such as virtualization and scalable, modular data center architectures are looking to abate some of these costs, but new complexities are appearing. The impact to availability, energy efficiency and performance are now, more then ever, linked together. Implementing infrastructure capacity and change management is a new tool available for managing the complexities and to help answer the not so obvious questions of 'Where should I locate my next server?' or 'Where should I migrate my applications to maximize efficiency?'.