Virtualization

Benefits of virtualization

• Hardware costs are lower because servers are used to the maximum of their resources
• Server provisioning time is reduced
• Physical access to a server is not necessary anymore, the server can be managed from anywhere in the world
• Sizing studies are facilitated
• Virtual machine snapshots can be migrated, which automatically increases the level of high availability of the VMs
• It is easy and cost-effective to create one virtual server per service, thus increasing separation of services and security
• Change management is facilitated thanks to snapshots and easy rollbacks
• Datacenter management is facilitated because hardware intervention does not lead to service downtime