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	Using Wasabi Storage Builder® for IP-SAN with VMware ESX Server 3.0

Description In the server room of a typical organization there are separate, dedicated servers providing various functions – for example, a file server, a mail server, and a database server. However, industry analysts estimate that servers that are running a single application are utilizing as little as 10% of each server’s resources. It is easy to do the math and realize how much money is unnecessarily being spent on unused resources. While it is possible to run multiple applications on the same physical server, this is only feasible if the applications all run on the same operating system. Furthermore, even if the applications do run on the same operating system, there is the potential for conflicts between applications.

VMware® ESX Server 3.0 uses server virtualization, a technology that enables users to run multiple operating systems concurrently on a single physical server, where each of the operating systems runs in its own virtual computer, called a virtual machine. Each virtual machine has its own virtual CPU, virtual memory, virtual hard disks, and so on, and an operating system and applications are installed on the virtual machines, just as if they were actual physical servers. The operating system and applications are not aware that they are running in a virtual machine and will function just as if they were on physical servers.

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