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| Companies Go Green and Save Tons with VMware Virtualization |
May 6, 2008 |
VMware SoftwareHas Saved Customers 39 Billion Kilowatt Hours of Electricity, More than the Power Used Annually to Heat and Cool the Country of Denmark
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 6, 2008 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacentre, today announced that its virtualization solutions are saving customers tons in costs and CO2 emissions. Using VMware virtualization, customers can consolidate 10 or more physical machines onto a single server and reduce power consumption and cost by 80-90 per cent. VMware customers that have moved from a 1:1 application to server ratio to 60:1 or higher have achieved millions of dollars in capital and operational savings.
For every server virtualized, customers can save about 7,000 kilowatt hours (kWh), or four tons of CO2 emissions, every year. VMware has virtualized more than 6 million server workloads since 1998, resulting in an estimated energy savings of nearly 39 Billion kWh, or roughly US4.4 billion. This is roughly equivalent to the total energy consumption of Denmark for one year. PCs virtualized and hosted on servers in the datacentre can also reduce power consumption and cost by 35 per cent. Hosting desktops in the datacentre also doubles the replacement cycle of PCs or thin clients, reducing the environmental impact associated with manufacturing new equipment.
"Most servers and desktops today are still consuming 70-80 per cent of their rated power even when idle," said Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer, VMware. "VMware is able to deliver substantial power and cost savings through innovative power management capabilities in our virtualization solutions that safely power down or throttle servers when not in use. By powering down servers and desktops during inactive periods such as evenings or weekends, we can help customers save another 25 per cent or more on power consumption without affecting applications or users."
Since 2006, VMware has been an active pioneer inworking with utility companies to offer incentive programs supporting virtualization projects in datacentres. VMware works with utilities across North America including Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, SDG&E, BC Hydro and Austin Energy to provide customers incentives based on the amount of energy savings achieved through datacentre consolidation.
Sheffield Hallam University Virtualizes with VMware, Cuts 269 Tons of CO2 and Saves $B!r (B43,000 on Power Bills Annually
Sheffield Hallam, one of the UK's most innovative and progressive universities with more than 28,000 students and over 5,000 staff, required a number of new IT services to support its user community. This led to the number of servers within the datacentre doubling within twelve months. The building's electricity grid could not supply enough power to reliably support the required number of servers within the main datacentre, and physical space was also a major issue. Sheffield Hallam is using VMware's market-leading datacentre virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, to reduce power and cooling requirements in the datacentre and improve the delivery of IT services. VMware Infrastructure 3 provides the capability for automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption.
"With the server farm growing towards capacity, we knew a completely new strategy was required," said Dave Thornley, service support manager, Sheffield Hallam University. "We decided that moving to a virtual infrastructure would be the most effective way to tackle cost management and space issues. Using VMware, we have made a huge impact on our power bills as well as leading to major savings in the deployment of new services to users."
For more information on how other companies have gone green and reduced costs using VMware virtualization, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/consolidation/green/
About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacentre. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and on the web at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington, Ontario.
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Background info on Canadian organizations
1 Virtualization helps Ryerson University (Ontario) save half a million over 3 years (power, cooling, hardware, etc.).
Below please find a case study on how virtualization has helped Ryerson University save on power and cooling, floor space, hardware, server provisioning and system administration costs.
Ryerson University is known for its career-focusedapproach to education: giving students and faculty the tools they need to pursue their varied fields of interest-including an ever-growing number of computer applications. To keep up, the University kept buying dozens of servers a year. In late 2006, they maxed out their two campus data centres and needed a way to address the continually increasing server demand and control its server sprawl, while keeping costs down.
With VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, 130 servers are consolidated onto 13 physical hosts-while providing faculty and students with an unprecedented level of service, including dramatically fast and inexpensive server provisioning, better backup and comprehensive disaster protection.
Ryerson estimates that the university will save half a million Canadian dollars over three years.
Results at a glance:
$B!| (B 90% reduction in physical servers
$B!| (B Dramatically lowered hardware, systems administration and power costs-for an estimated CDN $570,000 savings over three years
$B!| (B 80% reduction in the amount of floor space devoted to servers and storage
$B!| (B Power and cooling costs slashed 80%
$B!| (B The cost of provisioning servers reduced 65%
$B!| (B Virtualization and mirrored SANs at the university's two data centres offer full disaster recovery for the first time-with estimated recovery time cut from months to minutes
2. Interior Health Authority (British Columbia) uses virtualization to create a greener data centre: 76% power savings for servers and 84% reduction in cooling requirements
Interior Health Authority (IHA) was lookingfor ways to reduce hardware, power and cooling costs at an overtaxed central data centre. To achieve that, IHA migrated physical servers scheduled for replacement to virtual ones, saving money, offering high availability and creating a greener data centre. According to Mal Griffin, CIO of IHA, every dollar saved on IT will be used towards better patient care.
Results at a glance:
$B!| (B Currently 160 physical servers virtualized on 6 VMware ESX Servers
$B!| (B By end of 2008 will have 250 servers on 7 new VMware ESX Server - this will equate to 76% power savings for servers and 84% reduction in cooling requirements, which is estimated to save some $70,000 per year.
$B!| (B Won VMware's 2007 Virtual Vanguard Award for energy savings
$B!| (B Improved data centre efficiency, which enables systems administrators to manage hundreds of virtual machines within one program (VirtualCenter), including CPU, RAM, network connections and storage resources
$B!| (B Maximized utilization of both physical hardware and software licenses
$B!| (B Simplified and hastened cloning and procurement of new servers
IHA Green Savings
Before:
Physical Servers
Total power supply wattage: 31,900 W
Total max BTU heat output: 156,060 BTU
After:
Virtual Farm
Total power supply wattage: 7,800 w
Total max BTU heat output: 24,318 BTU
(Average BBQ is 35,000 BTUs)
** Using only 24% of power; requires only 16% of cooling - and with room to spare
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