More efficiency. Lower costs. Less effort.
Virtualization and consolidation of servers and apps across your network can offer notable business results, like low hardware, facility and energy costs, simplified management and support and reduced carbon footprint. Windows Server 2008 R2 has built in Hyper-V to virtualize your system resources without the cost of third-party software and Live Migration to move virtual machines with virtually no downtime. With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 you can consolidate database servers, meet high availability needs and optimize performance; creating virtual data centers that help you improve hardware utilization and reduce admin expenses. Meanwhile, Microsoft System Center handles your virtual and physical environments across multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux and UNIX, and gives you control over it all from a single pane of glass.
Reduce cost and increase operational efficiency
"For quite a while, SQL Server has enabled you to run multiple instances on the same physical box. To take what at one time were stand-alone servers, and put them on a single, physical piece of hardware. It cuts down heating and cooling costs and storage space requirements while allowing you to tightly control the security and the utilization of each of those instances without much concern about the potential cross-bleed or cross-access of data."
“Hyper-V is actually incredible in terms of the increase in performance that we get in the servers.”
"To get great utilization out of SQL Server 2008, you should be running Windows Server 2008. There are tons of reasons why you should. Really, any time you’re putting in new equipment, it’s a slam dunk decision. With Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, it becomes even easier to isolate instances, isolate servers to stack multiple virtual servers on the same piece of hardware."
