Save 74% in energy costs by virtualizing SharePoint with VMware

Published August 11, 2008

Tags: Energy & HVAC, Servers, More... Energy & HVAC, Servers, Virtualization

Wonder how much in energy costs you can save by virtualizing key enterprise apps? The Virtual Geek's blog about VMware has a great piece that shows how to save 74% in energy costs by virtualizing Sharepoint with VMware. Check out the piece for nitty-gritty details of the physical and virtual configurations, as well as performance charts, CPU utilization

and more. Here, though, are the high-level findings:

* Our Virtualized SharePoint server infrastructure farm out-performed the physical SharePoint farm by 4%, * But only used 26% of the electrical power (watts) required to power the physical server infrastructure - put another way, that’s a 74% power saving over physical, put yet another way, going physical means 380% more power. * 1017 Watts versus 3952 Watts. 6 Power cords versus 22.

If you've got Sharepoint, the blog is must reading.

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