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http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/14/when-not-to-treat-vms-like-physical-servers/

A general rule of thumb in virtual environments is to always treat virtual machines the same as you would physical servers. While this rule holds true in many cases, IT administrators should be aware of some exceptions to this rule. Let’s go over some reasons that you would not treat your virtual machines like physical servers:

An excellent article, do check it out.  I wonder if for this reason (and for one of being more efficient), we need a decommissioning team from an asset management, data center and server management standpoint. A team that can approach the decommissioning activity from three points:

• Data center – energy efficiency/performance per watt – legacy systems/ghost servers
• Asset management – servers that have no asset value, that are over a set number of years old, that run a specific operating system or have reached their marginal operating cost
• Server side – the servers that are contributing to the support costs most, the servers that are of a specific configuration/operating system that represent a risk to production/known issues – those legacy Proliant servers which lack on board lights out, have one network port etc.

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