The traditional “one workload, one box” approach to server provisioning inevitably leads to over-provisioning and underutilisation of server hardware assets. Organisations typically provision at least one server for every application or service they deliver, yet most of these servers only operate at about 5-15% of their total load capacity. Meanwhile, the costs associated with power, cooling, network infrastructure, storage infrastructure, administrative overhead and real estate can sky-rocket as the data centre expands. The result is server sprawl: a situation in which servers take up more space and consume more resources than their workloads can justify.

Nebulas Virtualise’s Physical to Virtual (P2V) Server Consolidation solution enables organisations to eliminate server sprawl by converting physical machines into fully functional virtual machines. By running multiple workloads on highly configured servers, an organisation can therefore increase the utilisation of server hardware from 10-15% to as much as 80%.

As a result an organisation can significantly reduce the amount of IT hardware in the data center and can typically expect a server consolidation ratio of 10:1 or higher.

This solution is the natural successor to Nebulas Virtualise’s assessment services, enabling organisations to take the next step to virtualising their infrastructure.