Тогда вот еще один пример компании решившей что можно и нужно (обратите внимание на их степень консолидации – 23:1 !!!)
Infrastructure manager Mark Jones told iTnews that the company is currently using approximately 20 per cent of the available rack capacity.
He said that while Corporate Express had purchased some blades to enable it to run at higher computing densities, its primary server environment consisted of 16 IBM 3650 servers running some 370 virtual instances.
It is using VMware to run virtualisation on these servers and has virtualised workloads including Exchange and its SQL databases, according to Jones.
"Initially when we went into the virtualisation implementation cycle we had a view that workloads that had low latency such as databases wouldn’t be good virtualisation candidates, but we’ve changed our minds over time," Jones said.
"We’re about to upgrade to Exchange 2007 and that will be virtualised. We’ve also virtualised our SQL database servers as well because we’re pretty confident the VMware platform can sustain the demands of those types of workloads."
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