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.
