You don't provide nearly enough information to be specific to your case, so I'll be specific to mine.
My company was rapidly growing in the closet. When I started with the firm (not in IT, at the time) there was one (Novell) server. When I took over IT there were three (Windows, Windows XP, and the Novell that the other guy wouldn't kill off) servers. Within a year, I had demands for 3 more and a need for 2 more from the IT side of things (AV Management and WSUS). If you virtualize, you can provision servers (depending on licensing) so that only one app is installed on a server. This is almost a necessity for line of business apps we run. It's also nice for keeping the AV management server, file and print services, email and directory services on their own server instance. If you virtualize storage, as I did at the time, you can also pursue high availability options. Even without high availability, being able to bring a vitrual machine up on another physical host with 2 minutes of effort is really nice. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Hugo Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I have been asked to provide a comparison of the two and why going to a > virtualized environment would benefit our company. Although I have a solid > idea of what needs to be said I wanted to see if anyone had a good > site(s)with high level information that would help me in convincing > management (as non-technical as you can get) to virtualize. We are a small > shop (less than 50 users) who will soon double in size so we will need to > start adding more systems and bring email in house etc. Any help would be > appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > > > Hugo Hernandez > > IT Manager > > * * > > * E-mail:* *[email protected] > > The information contained in this email message is PRIVILEGED AND > CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended only for the use of the individual or > entity it was directly addressed to. If the reader of this message is not > the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by > email. Thank you. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
