Benefits of Infrastructure Virtualization

Deploying multiple servers and scaling storage while staying aligned with the business’s data processing needs often proves expensive and inefficient.

Here, infrastructure virtualization can serve as a solution. Virtualization involves creating multiple simulated environments from a single physical hardware system. Software called hypervisor that connects to the company’s hardware and enables a system into distinct and separate secure environments (virtual machines) helps do it.

Virtual machines or devices are self-contained and independent. The most common types of virtualizations include server virtualization, network virtualization, application virtualization, desktop virtualization, and storage virtualization. The process benefits companies in various ways. Let’s look at some of them in this blog.

5 Advantages of Infrastructure Virtualization

From reduced costs to increased infrastructural resilience, these five advantages make infrastructure virtualization a potential solution to optimizing IT strategies.

1. Reduced IT Costs

If purchasing new hardware is the only solution to onboarding more computing resources, companies can end up spending way more than intended.

Virtualization allows you to delve into your systems and identify idle computing resources. In many cases, companies deploy servers to run applications that serve only a minuscule part of their available resources. They don’t use these servers to the fullest. Such servers remain idle when the applications are not in use. Thus, in a way, companies pay for such servers for practically nothing!

But infrastructure virtualization allows you to assign each virtual machine the amount of computing power it requires to perform its job. The rest of the resources are available for use in other applications and virtual machines. Virtualization involves initial investment. But it is lesser than the cost involved in buying new hardware.

2. Increased Infrastructural Efficiency

Virtual infrastructure is easier to nurture, as handling various physical servers requires individual attention and more human resources. Against it, virtualization allows configuring, monitoring, and updating all virtual machines from a single machine. Besides, the IT department can spin a virtual machine without adding new hardware. Another benefit is scalability. While scaling physical infrastructure requires adding new physical elements, scaling virtual one doesn’t incur as much effort.

3. Increased Resilience

Virtualization allows you to copy, backup, and clone virtual machines to various physical hardware. It is unlike a traditional environment confined to hardware. Besides, deploying new hardware can take time. But you can deploy a virtual machine in minutes.

4. Sustainability

Sustainability? Yes. Some of you may wonder what sustainability has to do with infrastructure virtualization. This benefit might not be as apparent. But looking at it closely will help you understand the direct relationship between both. Reducing the amount of hardware in your environment helps reduce power consumption, thus curtailing your carbon footprint in the long run. You can invest the money saved in other more strategically significant aspects of your business.

5. Increased System Availability

Virtualization allows automatic monitoring of the VM status and quickly switching to backup machines during outages. Thus, virtualizing your infrastructure provides companies with a highly reliable system with little to no chance of hardware or software failure. You can continue operating your virtual machine from its last working condition. Thanks to the failover systems. These factors help optimize system availability.

Companies can remotely monitor their systems from anywhere, thus contributing positively to reducing any probable downtime.

Partner with FidelTech if you are looking to virtualize your infrastructure. We are a Japan-based IT services company with extensive experience and experience in helping companies increase IT efficiency through potential solutions like virtualization.

Our experts carefully and comprehensively review your requirements and existing infrastructure to recommend the right virtualization solution. We provide end-to-end support that involves everything from consulting to operating, maintaining, and upgrading the virtualized infrastructure.

Please email us at infofidel@fideltech.com to learn more about our infrastructure virtualization solutions.

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