Explain how the benefits of virtualization would impact the city of Seabreeze.
There are many benefits to migration of a datacenter to a virtual environment. The most understated benefit is true power savings. The reduction of the overall hardware footprint literally means the organization doesn’t have as many servers or desktops to power on a daily basis. These saving which have to be measured over time will contribute to a sizeable decrease in power consumption. As a result of a reduced footprint, less space will be required to house required hardware since multiple servers can be housed on a single hardware host. After virtualization the amount of time to provision a new server is reduced from sometimes weeks to minutes. There is no new hardware to purchase. Only an operating systems license is required if the chosen OS is not free. Server uptime is also increased because of High Availability and Disaster recovery features that are built-in to the product.
Explain how to offset potential negative implications of the adoption of virtualization for the city of Seabreeze.
The biggest concern for most pre-virtualization users is fear. The fear of cost and application compatibility were some of the largest obstacles for early adopters. Over the years this has changed tremendously. One of the biggest opposing companies to virtualization was Oracle. They refused to support or adopt any form of virtualization for their products. A company the size of Oracle steered away from the virtualization path for years because of fear of compatibility, stability, and ability to run their prize winning database solution. Over the years customer demand required they look at it potential. Years later this is not the case. At Collaborate 14 – IOUG forum when asked how many of the Oracle people were actually virtualizing and using the vSphere, 50 percent to 75 percent raised their