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Virtual Server - Understanding Benefits and Dispelling Drawbacks

 A virtual server primarily helps to decouple the software from the hardware. Once the software and hardware become independent entities, it becomes possible to house several server environments on a single piece of server hardware. Each server environment, also referred to as virtual machine, is a self-contained entity. The prominent benefit of server virtualization is that it helps us to utilize our computing resources in a better manner. In the following paragraphs, we shall delve out some more benefits of a virtual server as well as try to dispel the drawbacks. Some outstanding benefits of sever virtualization Proper hardware utilization- On an average, distributed servers are able to use only 20 to 25 percent of the computing capacity of the resources. Server virtualization boosts up hardware utilization to up to 65 to 85 percent. Proper resource utilization means that with lesser number of equipments, you can work more efficiently. Additionally, IT, hardware and maintenance c...