As discussed in Part 1, data centers have been challenged for a long time to provide customers more computing and storage services within the limited physical boundaries of their facilities. Part 2 will discuss Data Center Virtualization Benefits and Server Virtualization Benefits.

Data Center Virtualization Benefits

Concentrating all computing and storage resources into one virtualized service is challenging, but it can bring many benefits. Once implemented, virtualization enables a SDDC to manage its resources and services more effectively. Workload and power requirements can be directly adjusted through software, which makes it easier to quickly and efficiently redirect resources required by customers. The software-defined data center architecture permits teams to simply and quickly allocate resources, instead of placing orders for new servers, which would require time to consider the impact on power usage and cooling requirements.

Virtualization’s power and cooling advantages are also a major benefit of data centers. Around the year 2000, data centers were facing a severe power crisis, and some experts predicted that they would someday pose a serious threat to the world’s energy resources. Although data centers use about 3% of the planet’s electricity, they use this energy with greater efficiency than older facilities, partly because virtualization technology allows them to maximize their hardware’s potential.

Server Virtualization Benefits

Although data centers benefit greatly, your customers will also win from virtualization. Computing virtualization allows them to control costs by buying only the services and storage they actually need. As it’s all accomplished via software, customers can also better understand their assets and data. Monitoring network traffic and identifying usage trends are easier, allowing them to optimize their systems. They can also better define who is permitted to access their networks while allowing them to oversee crucial security measures such as the generation of encryption keys.

Server virtualization enables data centers to easily scale services, giving customers unmatched flexibility. SDDC can either scale up or scale down services like cloud providers, helping businesses deal with market unpredictability. By letting customers buy just the services they need, a SDDC is particularly suitable for small enterprises that cannot afford the capital-intensive infrastructure of big competitors. As data center virtualization can accommodate processing-intensive workloads, they can develop and test apps exceeding the capacity of their existing resources.

Part 3 will discuss Software-Defined Architecture Basics and When It Should Be Deployed.

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