Question

The IT department at Universal AreoSpace uses three Windows servers: one for the Accounting Department, one for engineering, and one for the Marketing Department. These servers are running on separate systems that are aging and do not have the capability for future expansion. A suggestion is to save costs by virtualization to consolidate their servers and provide high availability in the event of hardware failure. Write a memo that discusses the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization and discusses which data center virtualization products you recommend and why.

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The advantage of the virtualization are

1) Virtualization reduce the infrastructure cost. It is because instead of investing hardware on multiple computers, we will purchase a single computer and virtualize the windows operating system.

2) Backup and restore will be more simplified in virtualization. The entire virtual system can be taken backup in a single file.

3) In virtualization operating costs are also lower, instead of maintaining three physical machines, we are maintaining one physical machine.

4) If required more virtual machines can be added without investment in hardware.

The disadvantage of virtualization are

1) We are dependent on one physical machine, if that get corrupt then all the virtualized system will have problem.

2) Speed get effected because the physical resources of one computer is being shared by multiple operating system.

The datacenter virtualization products is

VMware vsphere is a very popular virtualization product which support hardware virtualization, where the hardware resources of a physical machine can be shared by multiple operating system. Windows servers smoothly runs on VMware ESXi servers.
Microsoft server operating system includes the VMware virtualization software for virtualization, so it is a wise decision to use VMware products for windows virtualization as our servers are running on windows.