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As a fan of saving energy in IT infrastructures, I have calculated how much energy one can save via implementing a VDI. Below is a detailed VDI solution used as an example to prove exactly how much energy can be saved. In order to better explain this, I will assume the following:
- the system-integrator configures an automatic shutdown for the hypervizor overnight
- no shared storage is used to store VMs because you don’t need high availability functions for all desktops
- the workloads we have to virtualize are average office users using a software that does not run on terminal servers but we can serve 4 desktops with one CPU-Core
