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manual abstract
HP Industry
May 2003
Standard Servers
Successful server consolidation: it's all in the preparation
White Paper
TC030505WP
Table of contents
Abstract.................................................................................................................... 2
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 2
IT consolidation defined............................................................................................. 2
The IT journey....................................................................................................................2
Collocation .........................................................................................................3
Hardware/data integration...................................................................................3
Application integration.........................................................................................3
IT utility...............................................................................................................3
Server consolidation as part of IT consolidation.......................................................... 3
Types of server consolidation .............................................................................................4
Customer perception..........................................................................................................5
Business drivers.................................................................................................................6
Financial ............................................................................................................6
Operational ........................................................................................................6
Strategic.............................................................................................................6
Business objectives ............................................................................................................7
Financial ............................................................................................................7
Operational ........................................................................................................7
Strategic.............................................................................................................8
Consolidation considerations ..................................................................................... 8
Performing an analysis for server consolidation candidacy .................................................8
Streamlining the infrastructure ...........................................................................................9
Centralization .....................................................................................................9
Remote management............................................................................................9
Reduction in operating systems............................................................................10
Partitioning software ..........................................................................................10
Virtual servers....................................................................................................11
Rapid deployment..............................................................................................11
Storage ............................................................................................................12
More efficient hardware .....................................................................................13
Maximizing resources......................................................................................................14
Consolidation economics ......................................................................................... 15
Cost savings ....................................................................................................................15
Power consumption............................................................................................15
Increased server to engineer ratio........................................................................15
Service level agreements and server licenses.........................................................15
Real estate ........................................................................................................15
Idle resources....................................................................................................15
Total cost of ownership ....................................................................................................15
Payback..........................................................................................................................15
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