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Virtualized Exchange Environment saves 50% power with 75% reduction in hardware

June 9, 2009 Dave Ohara

Microsoft has a paper on Virtualizing a 32 core eight server physical environment to a 32 core two server Hyper-V virtual environment, saving 50% of power with equivalent performance.

Below are some screen shots from the document.

This paper is well thought out and discusses the test methodology.

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The same workload was put on the servers.

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