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By Héctor Martínez
APC Business Development Manager for Latin America, APB by Schneider Electric

Virtualization can result in an increase in rack density, but it can also pose challenges beyond this. And these challenges must be expected in the power and cooling systems that support virtualized environments.
The need to reduce power consumption and carbon footprint in Data Centers must not be taken lightly, since a considerable amount of the benefits obtained by implementing virtualization is systematically lost through these infrastructures.
In addition to computer-related benefits derived from the implementation of virtualization -including power consumption reduction- cooling systems are also optimized in order to minimize unused capabilities, thus obtaining important benefits for organizations when higher demand on power and cooling infrastructures is required.
This physical server consolidation process into virtual servers can be accomplished in two different ways: first, by directly reducing the amount of servers and, secondly, indirectly, by eliminating a part of the power and cooling systems consumption to support servers.

Virtualized Environments
In virtualized environments,  applications can be dynamically started and stopped, which creates loads that can be instantly modified and move in space, thus presenting a new challenge for the power and cooling architecture and management. In addition to this, virtualization brings about changes which also pose new challenges as regards the power and cooling infrastructure.
If the power and cooling capabilities are not optimized, and there’s no commitment to reducing computing load, these challenges can impact both on performance (up to which point the infrastructure supports the computing load) and efficiency (up to which point power is conserved while it supports the computing load).
Even if it’s not essential to update power and cooling systems to start a virtualized environment, if these systems are still capable to meet the challenges related to the new environment, it will make it possible to obtain important efficiency benefits as a result of virtualization.

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