Research Article
Empirical Analysis of Server Consolidation and Desktop Virtualization in Cloud Computing
Table 2
Cost affected by VM density and performance composite index ratio.
| Cost | VM density (workload counts) | Performance composite index ratio |
| Capital expenditure | | | Client HW + MS VDA | ✗ | ✗ | Server HW | ✓ | ✗ | Storage HW | ✗ | ✗ | Networking and security HW | ✓ | ✗ | Hypervisor SW + SnS | ✓ | ✗ | Operational expenditure | | | Infrastructure admin | ✓ | ✓ | Power and cooling | ✓ | ✓ | Rack space and office spacs | ✓ | ✗ | Services + Training | ✗ | ✗ | Business agility | | | Planned downtime | ✗ | ✗ | Unplanned downtime | ✗ | ✗ | Business downtime | ✓ | ✓ | Other + Tax | ✓ | ✗ |
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