
128 The Green and Virtual Data Center
processed and stored, allowing the business to continue to grow and remain
competitive with a more efficient and productive data center.
Server consolidation using virtualization is part of an approach to
addressing PCFE issues. Consolidation by itself only addresses those servers
and applications that lend themselves to being consolidated; it does not help
or address applications that need to scale beyond the limits of a single or
even multiple servers. Thus, in addition to server consolidation for candi-
date servers and applications, deployment of newer-generation, faster, and
more energy-efficient equipment helps ...