10.3. Introducing Server Consolidation
The Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines consolidate as "to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unit; [to] combine." So, it's almost self-explanatory that server consolidation is the process of unifying different servers into one. In the example from Figure 10.1, there are three different servers. Consolidating them into one server would look a lot like what what's shown in Figure 10.3.
Figure 10.3. Server consolidation
As you can see there, even though the figure shows only one computer, three different operating systems are running. And furthermore, different applications ...
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