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Server Consolidation: Why Less is More

June 13, 2003
By Steven Schuchart Jr.

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	The Utility Data Center
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Once you decide that server consolidation is in your future, here's how to get started:

• 1. Get your physical inventory up-to-date.

• 2. Determine how many resources are being used on all servers.

• 3. Prioritize each software subsystem according to business importance. Go where it makes sense first, balancing the benefits of server consolidation with the risk involved in moving a given application or business-process system.

For help with inventory and resource monitoring see:

• "Firm Engineers Better Asset Management"

• "MRTG Monitors What's Brewing"

• "The End All of Network Performance Management"

• "Design Tools Come Into Focus"