A Study on the Application Cost of Server Virtualisation

Abstract

Server Virtualisation (SV) can improve the application efficiency of network sever resources, reduce the investment of hardware and less the cost of maintenance. This paper analyses that five key factors that are hardware cost, energy cost, software cost, maintenance cost and outage (or downtime) recovery cost in the Server Virtualisation. There a sample case is an university or a company what its application cost of the Server Virtualisation is examined and evaluated by contextual analysis. In addition, it will associate with the result of the case study to set out some critical suggestion in the concluding section.