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VMware vSphere is the most well known and feature-rich data center virtualization platform in the industry. It provides the best levels of responsiveness and control , which are deemed a necessity by the most critical data centers throughout the world.

VMware vSphere will help you to save money and provide you additional manageability over your IT infrastructure. You will be able to free up your IT team and can use just about any server hardware, operating system, and applications you like.

What is new in vSphere 4.1:

vCompute

• Memory Compression -Reduces memory contention and provides application performance.

• DRS Host Affinity - Set policies when using Dynamic Resource Scheduling to preferentially keep an application operating on a specific server.

vStorage

• Storage I/O Control-Set storage quality of service priorities for each virtual server to prioritize availability of storage resources.

• Array Integration-use new storage protocols in between vSphere and storage boxes for faster Storage vMotion events and virtual machine provisioning.

vNetwork

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

Scalability

• More virtual machines 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 - Enhancements to vMotion allow quicker response and availability allowing 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 management. Easily assign allowed actions to users or groups and deploy out permission rules across hosts.

VMware server virtualization software can assist you in making 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 significantly cut costs. A good way to start is to have a server consolidation study completed which will give you an estimate of what types of capital and operational cost reductions 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.