Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Server sprawl is a term used in computer jargon. It describes a situation that can occur in data centers where a disproportionate amount of the physical server machines are running at very low utilization, thus wasting a lot of the data center's resources like power, cooling and sp ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Server sprawl is a term used in computer jargon. It describes a situation that can occur in data centers where a disproportionate amount of the physical server machines are running at very low utilization, thus wasting a lot of the data center's resources like power, cooling and space, as well as the internal resources of each server such as CPU cycles, memory and storage. Various techniques exist to mitigate server sprawl, most notably computer virtualization. By virtualizing workloads in a data center, hardware resources can be better utilized.