Server consolidation

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions products can be used in many combinations. The configurations listed are the minimum required to accomplish the objectives of the respective use cases.

Server consolidation enables you to run multiple virtual machines, each with the functionality equivalent to a physical server, combining the multiple applications and their workloads onto a single server for better server utilization and reduced datacenter server sprawl.

Figure: Server consolidation

Server consolidation

The server consolidation use case is supported for the following Linux virtualization technologies: