UPGRADE SERVERS THAT DO NOT PROVIDE SATISFACTORY WORKLOAD
PERFORMANCE
Servers do not wear out in the traditional mechanical sense, but workload
performance will typically degrade over time as more demanding application
updates and patches converge with a growing user base. For example, enormous
storage traffic demanded by the current user/customer base may simply
overwhelm the server’s network bandwidth, or a current software release may rely on chipset features that don’t exist on the current system -- both resulting
in poor response times and performance problems. If a host server can no
longer meet the growing computing demands of applications and users, newer
and more powerful systems may be required.