Patent ID: 8606894

Claim:
A computer-readable storage device on which is encoded program code performing a method for server consolidation, the method comprising: collecting performance data of a plurality of source servers in a desired environment; selecting a first group having one or more source servers from the plurality of source servers for consolidation; marking each source server in the first group initially with a replace status, a reuse status or an undecided status; re-marking any source server in the first group that is marked with the undecided status with one of the replace status and the reuse status based on a predetermined policy consideration; selecting a target platform as a first target platform for a new server that replaces any source server in the first group based on the initially marked statuses of the source servers and the re-marked status of any of the source servers initially marked with the undecided status; and performing a first server consolidation analysis of the first group based at least on the collected performance data, and the first selected target platform.