Identification should include
- advantages—
- Server consolidation
- Many applications on each server
- Maximum server utilization, minimum server count
- Faster, easier application and resource provisioning
- High application availability
- Wizard-based guides for ease of installation
- Simple, streamlined management
- Higher reliability and performance
- Superior security
- Greater savings
- Affordability
- disadvantages—
- Magnified physical failures
- Degraded performance
- New skills and training required
- Complex root-cause analysis
- New management tools needed
- Virtual machine sprawl
- Virtual habits