International Journal of Computer Science Trends and Technology (IJCST) – Volume 3 Issue 6, Nov-Dec 2015 ISSN: 2347-8578 www.ijcstjournal.org Page 109 RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Server Virtualization Implementation: An Experimental Study for Cost Effective and Green Computing Approach towards Educational Infrastructure Management Yogesh Ghorpade [1] , Tajuddin Bennur [2] , Dr. H. S. Acharya [3] Dr. R. Kamatchi [4] Research Scholar [1] Department of Computer Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Tanil Nadu Assistant Professor [2] , Professor [3] Department of Computer Sciecne Allana Institute of Management Sciences, Pune India ABSTRACT Nowadays the IT world is going with use of virtualization technology in various aspects such as lab experiments, clustering, parallel processing, distributed system etc. in educational system. Educational systems are looking to virtualization to reduce cost and increase security concern solutions as a suitable infrastructure models. Relatively new to educational, the concept of virtualization is proving itself in the business and consumer world as “the next big thing.” The concept of virtualization is very broad and can be applied to devices, servers, operating systems, applications and even networks [7]. Entire classes or departments can be quickly and easily set up with new desktop devices and applications because installation and configuration are done once, at the server, and duplicated as often as needed. Users can log on to virtual desktops from any device in the network [11]. VMware provides an excellent platform for deployment and VMM of Server Virtualization. Academic Institutions can take benefit of this platform for use in Laboratory to provide cost effective solutions. The infrastructure created can also be intelligently used for teaching networking concepts to students with the tremendous advantage of having everything at one place. Providing a good platform where algorithms on parallel computing, distributed computing can be tested is a necessity, which can be met with this type of infra-structure. The future research work in Server Virtualization will be carried in private cloud building and its virtual clustering [2]. In educational system the problem is how to utilize the old infrastructure to perform lab exercises which requires high performance computing resources in educational system by the use of Virtualization environment. This paper is based on experimental procedure to obtain a specific model to implement a standardized server virtualization using VMware ESXi with VSphere on server side and VClient on client side. This paper also focuses on green computing with the major factor Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Keywords: - Educational Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Environment, Virtual Machines, Green Computing, Open Source, Clustering, TCO. I. INTRODUCTION The paper overcomes the problem of utilizing the old infrastructure to perform lab exercises which requires high performance computing resources in educational system by the use of Virtualization environment. It is based on experimental procedure to obtain a specific model to implement a standardized server virtualization using VMware ESXi with VSphere on server side and VClient on client side. In section 2 the paper covers the Life cycle of virtualization with 4 phases. Section 3 and 4 covers the need and architectures of virtualization for the implementation purpose. The user role, implementation procedure and its outcome snapshots are discussed in section 5, 6 and 7 respectively. Evaluating Comparison of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in section 8 is discussed. This paper also focuses on green computing with the major factors reusability and power consumption of virtualized environment in section 9.