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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Marie-jo L. Fremont, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alex X. Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Fereydoon Safai, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jerome Rolia, Kanata, CA;
Keith I. Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Dirk M. Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Martin F. Arlitt, Calgary, CA;
Marie-Jo L. Fremont, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alex X. Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Fereydoon Safai, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jerome Rolia, Kanata, CA;
Keith I. Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Dirk M. Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Martin F. Arlitt, Calgary, CA;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for server consolidation is provided. The method includes collecting performance data of a plurality of source servers in a desired environment, selecting a group of one or more source servers from the plurality of source servers for consolidation, marking each source server in the with one of multiple usability statuses with one of such statuses indicates the marked source server is to be replaced or reused as necessary in the server consolidation, selecting a target platform for a new server, and performing a first server consolidation analysis of the first group based at least on the collected performance data, the initial usability status of each source server in the first group, and the first selected target platform.