Whitepaper: Recentralizing Server Sprawl - From Best Strategies to Cost Savings

IT departments previously tended to follow the unwritten technology rule of “one application per operating system instance,” which resulted in servers being underused. Giga estimates that (as of the end of the 2002) more than 60 percent of the low-end and midrange Intel server population (e.g., four-and eightway SMP-based systems) are running at only 15 percent to 30 percent of their total system capacities. More recently, however, through the use of VMware’s virtual machine GSX and ESX Server technology, collapsing the operating system images on a fewer number of servers has provided some economic benefits through operating system and application consolidation.

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