Virtualization

Put the unused capacity in your data center to better use.

The average server utilization in an enterprise environment ranges from 5 to 40 percent, leaving at least 60 percent of the available capacity unused. With Virtualization from Novell, you can consolidate workloads running on multiple physical servers onto a single physical server and harness unused computing power.

With Virtualization from Novell, you can reduce your total number of servers by migrating multiple environments on different physical machines to individual virtual machines hosted on a single server. As a result, you can increase your CPU utilization and the efficiency of your server hardware.

Key Benefits of Virtualization

Using Virtualization from Novell to consolidate all of your server applications onto a single physical server has many benefits, including:

• Increased server utilization
• Lower server admin, maintenance and energy costs
• Reduced software and hardware costs
• Reduced complexity
• A smaller data center footprint with no reduction in scalability

Reduce the size of your data center and increase utilization.

Novell and Microsoft—Working Together for You

In addition, Novell is collaborating with Microsoft to develop new solutions for virtualization that provide you with the best virtualization platform for Windows server consolidation. With interoperable Novell virtualization technologies, Linux and Windows can now reside side by side, sharing the same physical servers.

Furthermore, virtualization-related flexibility extends to today's increasingly heterogeneous production environments where Linux, Windows and UNIX all provide essential business services.

Reduce your server provisioning time by up to 90 percent with Virtualization from Novell.

Traditional server deployment is costly because it can be extremely labor intensive. Even if an appropriate physical server is available on-site, it takes more than six hours to deploy and provision it.

With rapid provisioning, you need significantly less time to deploy a virtual machine residing on an existing physical server. Because new virtual machines are easy to deploy, your IT team can respond more rapidly and flexibly to business requirements for new IT resources. That means you can respond faster to your customers’ needs. Up to 90 percent faster.

Provision and Respond in Minutes, Not Days

Virtualization from Novell provides you with enhanced management capabilities for rapid provisioning:

• SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 with the integrated Xen hypervisor, allows you to provision, de-provision, install, monitor and manage multiple guest operating systems
• With AutoYaST, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides an integrated tool for automatic enterprise-wide Linux installation
• With ZENworks® Linux Management, you have centralized control of Linux systems throughout your enterprise

Cut response time by up to 90 percent.

Rapid provisioning leverages all of your assets and speeds software development. Administrators can start up, shut down or suspend virtual machine operating system instances and migrate VMs from one physical server to another in order to relocate a load or prepare for maintenance.

IT managers can test and qualify software stacks in an isolated "sandbox" that runs in the same environment as the production workload.

Downtime is not an option. Minimize disruption with Virtualization from Novell.

Business continuity is critical. Companies with business continuity plans are able to stay up and running at alternate sites with minimum loss of data and minimum downtime.

Virtualization from Novell increases business continuity and high availability by migrating disparate workloads onto virtual machines without interruption.

High Availability = Business Continuity

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 delivers high-availability components to help ensure service-level availability—even when virtualized—thus satisfying the requirements of the modern data center environment. The integrated Xen hypervisor delivers Virtual Machine (VM) isolation for both software faults and varying workloads.

Maintain business continuity, no matter what.

This allows your data center managers to maintain a centralized store of Virtual Machines (VMs) and deploy them over the network by identifying a physical computer at deployment time, copying the VM image, and making it available to run on that particular physical server.

High Availability for VM Hosting

The VM can specify a set of constraints such as SAN connectivity or the hardware must support virtualization technology. They can also configure a clustered environment that features centralized, shared storage and is free of single points of failure.

This enables high availability for VM hosting, as all VM operating system image files reside in a central location and access is possible for each server. VMs can be failed over if the physical server on which they're running fails.

Your mixed-IT environment is complex. Running and managing it doesn’t have to be.

The data center of the future will combine open and proprietary systems. Virtualization from Novell, with built-in central management and automation tools, makes it easier for you to leverage everything you have so that you can run your workloads on the best possible platform.

Aligning IT with Business

Novell ZENworks products use orchestration to align IT with your business goals, controlling IT costs and minimizing risk by eliminating administrator effort, reducing IT skill requirements and optimizing the value of your IT assets.

Easily handle more workloads and more of the managing.

Novell ZENworks provides critical ITIL services to manage virtualization. It also includes HPC management, change management, configuration management, patch and update, asset management, and more—from the desktop to data center.

Centralized Management Simplifies Everything

Novell ZENworks Orchestrator serves as the "brain" that allows for policy-based automation. Unlike other management products, ZENworks Orchestrator takes a heuristic approach to learn from previous events and resource demands.

Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management lets you confidently employ and manage virtualization in your data center—no matter what mix of applications and operating systems you're running.

From VMware to Microsoft to Xen virtualization environments, this policy-based solution automates the process of deploying and managing virtual data center assets and dynamically provisions workloads to ensure business continuity.

43 Million Users

With more than 43 million users and more than 9 years of systems management software experience, Novell ZENworks is a proven solution that helps to manage virtualization assets.

Slash your power, cooling and real estate costs with a green data center.

IDC calculates that the total power and cooling bill for servers in the US stands at a whopping $14 billion a year, and if the current trends persist, the bill is going to rise to $50 billion by the end of the decade. The growth of data center energy spending far outpaces the rate at which IT budgets grow, dangerously crowding out other vital IT initiatives and projects.

So it's no wonder that data center energy consumption is a major concern. With Virtualization from Novell, you can significantly reduce costs through reduced cooling requirements, lower power bills and decreased management demands.

Slash your power bills and the amount of energy your IT staff consumes.

Reduce Your Servers, Reduce Your Energy Costs

The green data center is a key area of focus for Novell in our efforts to improve data center efficiency. Virtualization technology, like the Xen hypervisor integrated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, is one important step toward a green data center.

Novell continues to develop new technologies that reduce the energy and power requirements in the data center of the future.