Educators Aim to Trim Servers by 60 Percent, Halve Data Center Space With Virtualization

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) was running out of data center space and wanted to reduce power and management costs. KDE had early experience with virtual machines and wanted to convert more of its 200 servers to a virtual environment to lower costs, provide new services, and advise school districts in the use of virtualization. KDE has deployed Hyper-V on one physical server running the Windows Server 2008 operating system with 10 virtual machines running management, database, and Web workloads. KDE plans to convert an additional 100 physical servers to virtual machines within two years. The use of System Center Virtual Machine Manager will speed server provisioning, decommissioning, and management.