1. Designing Your Virtual Infrastructure & Hypervisor Deep Dive Don Jones ConcentratedTech.com Pre-requisites for this presentation: 1) Strong understanding of basic virtualization concepts Level: Intermediate
19. Assessing the Right vRAM 2G of on-board RAM … minus… .5G of available RAM Let ’s consider a physical machine with 2G of on-board RAM … equals… Initial assignment of 1.5G of vRAM
22. Consolidation = Cost Savings 8:1 15:1 20:1 Small Server $6,000 1:1 $6,000 per Server Large Server $15,000 Virtualization $5,000 $20,000 Large Marginal Cost Increases per Additional Server $2,500 per Server Smaller Marginal Cost Increases + Power + Cooling + Provisioning Labor $1,333 $1,000