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TCO calculator from VMware.
A useful tool for IT Professionals to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership to implement a Virtualization Solution in their environment.
Brief Overview:
This tool is designed to provide a total cost of ownership analysis comparing your current environment to a virtualized VMware environment.
By answering a few questions related to your existing environment, including the number of servers intended to bo virtualized, person hours to provision a new server, and existing storage requirements, default assumptions are made based on Alinean research, 2007, to determine your current costs.
Through virtualization with VMware, servers can be consolidated resulting in a significant reduction of costs. All default assumptions should be reviewed and adjusted to better reflect your actual costs.
To view the default assumptions for your current environment, click on the link at the bottom of the Questionnaire titled "See/Edit Default Assumptions". Additional instructions for using this tool can be found by clicking on the icon in the tool bar titled "Users Guide".
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May 9th, 2007 11:00
Downtime due to software patches/upgrades will still occur with VMware. They may be a little faster (post on a VM only takes a few seconds, where post on a modern server can take a few minutes easily) to reboot, but nowhere near that much of a difference.