Performance analysis of microsoft windows 2008 R2 active directory server in consolidated virtualized environment on IBM's HS22 high performance blade

Server consolidation is a powerful technique for efficient utilization of Cloud's Resource. Consolidation ratio is always taken into consideration as far as optimized server consolidation is concerned. Calculation of consolidation ratio for Active Directory Servers is always tricky as these Active Directory services consume lot of resources. An approach for obtaining an optimized consolidation ratio by obtaining and comparing different benchmark of these Active Directory services on IBM's HS22 high performance blade has been carried out which will help designers who opt for server consolidation. IBM's HS22 are new generation high performance Blade Servers widely used for consolidations.