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20 optimize systems to cut costs and reclaim overprovi- sioned resources. '[It] was almost jaw dropping in terms of the memory and resources we would get back by using this product,' said Leon Ravenna, Millennium's Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations and Information Security Officer. 'Some of the results were almost unbelievable in terms of what they recom- mended. It drove us to be more efficient than we had been, and it taught us how to look at VMs differently than physical hardware.' Optimized resources By using vSphere with Operations Management capac- ity planning tools, Millennium discovered that every virtual machine was oversized. It quickly improved the efficiency of the entire data center by resizing each VM. 'Our entire data center is much more effi- cient, much more trimmed down and able to utilize more VMs on less hardware,' said Millennium's Lead System Engineer, Craig Clark. Now 94 per cent virtualized, Millennium has reduced the footprint in its customer-facing data center that runs its proprietary MPSRx medication fulfillment system from 25 physical machines down to just four. Streamlined management In addition to optimizing resources, Millennium stream- lined its data center management by using the single- pane-of-glass view provided by vSphere with Operations Management.