Oil Firm Grows Business While Trimming Servers by 80 Percent
Date
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9/9/2008
Maxol markets a comprehensive range of oil and petroleum products to all sectors of the Irish market. Always trying to trim costs, Maxol wanted to curb the rate of server growth and the costs associated with server proliferation. It also wanted to boost utilization of its servers, some of which ran at a limited capacity.
Maxol used the Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise OS featuring Hyper-V™ virtualization technology to consolidate 22 servers to 6 servers, an 80 percent reduction. Maxol estimates that it will save approximately US$94,000 in hardware and US$47,000 in electrical costs over three years. Server utilization has jumped to 30 percent, and server management is easier using Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The IT staff can create virtual machines in a fraction of the time needed to deploy physical servers.
Maxol used the Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise OS featuring Hyper-V™ virtualization technology to consolidate 22 servers to 6 servers, an 80 percent reduction. Maxol estimates that it will save approximately US$94,000 in hardware and US$47,000 in electrical costs over three years. Server utilization has jumped to 30 percent, and server management is easier using Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The IT staff can create virtual machines in a fraction of the time needed to deploy physical servers.