Together, server blades and virtualization are addressing many of IT’s cries. “My servers run at 3 — 5% utilization rates and I’m being asked to provision another ten servers each running their own application. I’m out of space; I’m out of power and I can’t stretch my budget or my administrators any thinner. How can this be good for business?” However, the question arises, “Can the system architectures, I/O and operating environments designed for a server running one application translate to support multiple virtual servers and their applications?”