Seabreeze: A Case Study

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As has been previously stated, adding virtualization offers several advantages for the Seabreeze physical server network. Some advantages of virtualization are: reduced capital (hardware) and operating costs; better resource management; improved security. To begin with, virtualization reduces hardware costs by reducing consolidating equipment. Initially, Seabreeze will reduce the physical server infrastructure by 70%. The project will upgrade the data center to 21 energy efficient servers with enough resources (CPUs, networking, memory, and disk storage) to host the virtual infrastructure. As for storage, the VMs will be stored on a storage area network (SAN). That is to say, the server cluster will be connected to a petabyte SAN for data

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