VIRTUALIZACIÓN COMO UNA ESTRATEGIA PARA REDUCIR COSTOS DE OPERACIÓN EN CENTROS DE CÓMPUTO

Abstract

This paper proposes a strategy to reduce costs by using virtualization. Virtualization is a technology that allows the creation of computers based on software that imitate the environment of a physical machine in their areas of CPU, memory, storage and input/output devices. Virtualization of hardware allows reducing costs in areas such as maintenance, energy, space and personnel required to manage the computers. Overall reductions produce very attractive savings for companies or institutions that seek to optimize their resources, while maintaining, even increasing the level of services of existing information technologies. Through a deep exploration of the possibilities for using virtualization as a consolidation tool, it seeks to give the datacenter administrators a valuable tool for the optimization of resources. Virtualization, as discussed throughout this research, is the appropriate way to achieve what in the words of IBM means the pressure to do more with less. The case study developed in centro de cómputo viaducto of Secretaría de Educación Pública, is illustrative of how a project can be addressed by virtualization. Was performed with virtualization and subsequent analysis of problems can be solved through virtualization. As a result of the analysis of this case study shows the high potential of virtualization to achieve investment returns in shorter time periods than one year. As products of the thesis, the guide provides a comprehensive virtualization guide and virtualization strategy for their general application in any datacenter of both institutions and business in Mexico.