Skip to Content

What Is a Virtual Server?

What Virtual Servers Can Do for Your Data Storage

What Are Virtual Servers?

A virtual server is a server that shares hardware and software resources with other operating systems (OS) in contrast to dedicated physical servers. Server virtualisation is a critical component of the modern IT data centre.

The Benefits of Virtual Servers

There are several inherent advantages to server virtualisation, including:

  • Cost savings from partitioning a single server into multiple virtual servers
  • Reduced data centre footprint

Streamlined and efficient management and deployment of business resources (e.g., virtual desktops)

Test Drive FlashBlade

Experience a self-service instance of Pure1® to manage Pure FlashBlade™, the industry's most advanced solution delivering native scale-out file and object storage.

Try Now

Challenges of Deploying Virtual Servers

Although efficiency gains and cost reduction realized from virtualised environments can provide significant infrastructure savings, many organisations seeking to expand their usage of virtualisation encounter hardware design challenges that create complexities and increase costs.

An efficient virtualised environment blends servers, networking, storage, and backup. Any one bottleneck can drive inefficiency across other components, and those inefficiencies can be difficult to diagnose. Integrating solid-state storage, with its greater speed, reliability, and flexibility, can go a long way toward ensuring that virtualisation can scale as needed, and in a cost-effective manner.

Why Choose Pure Storage to Support Your Virtual Servers?

Pure Storage® solutions are particularly well-suited to virtualised server environments. Pure products boast native NVMe performance, the power to virtualise and consolidate every workload, and the modularity to grow with your business. When combined with Evergreen™ Storage, Pure Storage solutions can provide all-flash speed, scale, and reliability for a decade or more.

Browse key resources and events

PURE//ACCELERATE® 2025
Stay inspired with on-demand sessions.

Get inspired, learn from innovators, and level up your skills for data success.

Watch the Keynotes
COMING SOON
Pure//Accelerate™ 2025 Sydney

Join us on 18th September and rethink what's possible.

Learn More
VIDEO
Watch: The value of an Enterprise Data Cloud.

Charlie Giancarlo on why managing data—not storage—is the future. Discover how a unified approach transforms enterprise IT operations.

Watch Now
RESOURCE
Legacy storage can’t power the future.

Modern workloads demand AI-ready speed, security, and scale. Is your stack ready?

Take the Assessment
Your Browser Is No Longer Supported!

Older browsers often represent security risks. In order to deliver the best possible experience when using our site, please update to any of these latest browsers.