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Martijn Lohmeijer has been documenting his progress on a server consolidation and VDI project. Here he sums up the benefits they've seen so far:

Link: End score (consolidation, power etc.) « Documenting a virtualization project.

Real estate saved (focusing on servers only, not the VDI):

• Total rack units used for VI: 30
• Total racks used for VI: 2
• Total rack units saved: 240
• Total racks saved: 8
• Total sq. meters saved: 50 (we would have had to move into a datacenter suite twice as large to accomodate for growth)
• Total real estate cost (OTC) saved: € 30.000 (approx.)
• Total real estate cost (MRC) saved:  € 6.000 (approx.)
  
  • OTC: One Time Charge
  • MRC: Monthly Recurring Charge
  
  

Power savings:

• Extrapolated extra power requirement: 10 - 15 KiloWatts
• Estimated monthly power savings: € 1500 - 2500

There are also additional benefits like the massive increase in
continuity, the time saved on provisioning new servers and the
transparency in costs.