Virtualization Management Index (VMI) Report
VMI Report Overview
Beating the Industry's VM Consolidation Ratios recorded Webinar
Issues Included in the Report
• Dec 2010 - "The First VMI"
• Jan 2011 - "Large environments suffer poor VM density"
System administrators want to know...
- What are typical VM consolidation numbers?
- How much memory are other system administrators over committing?
- How heavily loaded are CPUs in a typical data center?
The Virtual Machine Index (VMI) is the virtualization industry’s first empirical study of virtualized data centers. Drawn from a data set size of over 2,500 unique environments and 550,000 virtual machines, the VMI provides a glimpse into the status of server consolidation measured by the number of VMs per host.
