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PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – July 21, 2009) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter and into the cloud, today announced VMware global partners, including Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and NEC have announced their support of using VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) to make their hardware even more power efficient. VMware DPM, part of the VMware vSphereâ„¢ 4 platform, lowers power consumption in the datacenter by aggregating unused capacity and powering off unused servers without disrupting service levels, helping customers slash energy consumption by as much as 20 percent.

“We saw an opportunity to save even more power for our customers by focusing on partially used servers in virtualized environments,” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer and senior vice president of R&D at VMware. “VMware DPM essentially performs server defragmentation. VMware DPM determines the best way to consolidate workloads onto the fewest number of physical servers needed to meet the applications’ performance requirements. VMware DPM then powers off unneeded servers to reduce datacenter energy consumption, powering them back on when the performance needs require more physical resources. This is done automatically, without disruption, while ensuring application SLAs are satisfied. Combined with energy-efficient hardware from our server partners, customers have an opportunity to save costs and make a positive impact in their carbon footprints.”

Anything we can do to further customer opportunities in reducing their costs of running the infrastructure in terms of support, and in energy costs has to be a good thing, the more we can utilize the benefits of the newer more efficient hardware, with rules for powering down idle systems, whilst maintaining the dynamic infrastructure, the more we can continue adding value and managing the customer needs for a cost efficient and dynamic business platform.

I’ll need to read up more about this, I wonder in the enterprise if there might be any concerns about automating elements of the infrastructure with regards to the change and systems management process, an ESX server that’s idle being powered down – is that a change to the infrastructure, and even if it isn’t, how do we update the monitoring, the inventory in line with what’s going on in our live environment?

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