What are the main reasons for implementing virtualization? (Select three.)
A. to accelerate business growth
B. to improve application performance
C. to reduce cost
D. to increase IT agility
E. to reduce network latency
Correct Answer: ACD
Explanation/Reference:
Industry Standard Architechture and Technology Rev. 9.31 Study Guide 2 of 2 – Page 68
Reasons for virtualization
So much industry attention is focused on virtualization because it is relatively easy to get tangible benefits quickly. Cost savings are obvious when a company is able to consolidate from 10 servers onto one.
By moving resources from vertical silos into shared pools, resource utilization can be optimized and capacity can be dynamically shifted to support demand.
Long-term benefits from virtualization can include:
- Accelerating business growth: By making an infrastructure more flexible, an IT organization can deliver new applications and business services faster. Adding capacity to meet new or expanding computing requirements can be completed in a matter of minutes or hours. IT services can be more closely connected to business demands and internal customers can pay for their actual use.
- Reducing costs: The pooling of servers, storage, networking, and other resources enables allocation as required. Virtualization enables businesses to reduce IT costs by consolidating and improving asset utilization. Virtualization can lower costs for hardware, power, cooling, and floor space as well as operational costs. A business that consolidates 6or10 servers on one server reduces any associated costs.
- Increasing IT agility: A more flexible virtualized IT environment can speed deployment of infrastructure and applications, run more efficiently, and adjust more quickly when demands change. For example, virtualization can streamline new server deployments from hours to minutes.
- Improve the quality of IT service delivery: Virtualization enables a business to more closely align IT with its changing needs. For example, service levels experienced by end users can be improved by allocating more IT capacity during peak times.
- Mitigating risks: The ability to quickly analyze your resource needs and dynamically allocate resources helps an IT organization enhance availability, continuity, and security, and meet service level agreements.
Explanation/Reference:
Industry Standard Architechture and Technology Rev. 9.31 Study Guide 2 of 2 – Page 68
Reasons for virtualization
So much industry attention is focused on virtualization because it is relatively easy to get tangible benefits quickly. Cost savings are obvious when a company is able to consolidate from 10 servers onto one.
By moving resources from vertical silos into shared pools, resource utilization can be optimized and capacity can be dynamically shifted to support demand.
Long-term benefits from virtualization can include:
- Accelerating business growth: By making an infrastructure more flexible, an IT organization can deliver new applications and business services faster. Adding capacity to meet new or expanding computing requirements can be completed in a matter of minutes or hours. IT services can be more closely connected to business demands and internal customers can pay for their actual use.
- Reducing costs: The pooling of servers, storage, networking, and other resources enables allocation as required. Virtualization enables businesses to reduce IT costs by consolidating and improving asset utilization. Virtualization can lower costs for hardware, power, cooling, and floor space as well as operational costs. A business that consolidates 6or10 servers on one server reduces any associated costs.
- Increasing IT agility: A more flexible virtualized IT environment can speed deployment of infrastructure and applications, run more efficiently, and adjust more quickly when demands change. For example, virtualization can streamline new server deployments from hours to minutes.
- Improve the quality of IT service delivery: Virtualization enables a business to more closely align IT with its changing needs. For example, service levels experienced by end users can be improved by allocating more IT capacity during peak times.
- Mitigating risks: The ability to quickly analyze your resource needs and dynamically allocate resources helps an IT organization enhance availability, continuity, and security, and meet service level agreements.