You have ten servers in your datacenter running Windows Server and Linux. You recently performed performance monitoring tests and found that you have two high-performance Windows Servers that are underutilized with respect to processing, memory and storage. You have several other lower performance servers that are running Windows Server and Linux on older hardware that is out of warranty and is becoming unreliable. Using your existing resources, what can you do to better utilize the high performance servers while being able to retire the older servers?
A) Install a bare-metal virtualization product on the high-performance servers and transfer the workloads of the older servers to VMs.
B) Configure new boot managers on the high-performance servers and boot to the OS required at any given time.
C) Install a hosted virtualization product on the high-performance servers and transfer the applications of the older servers to containers.
D) Re-install the applications and servers from the older servers on the high-performance servers.

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Installing a bare-metal virtualization product on the high-performance servers allows for the creation of multiple virtual machines (VMs) that can run different operating systems and applications. This approach enables the consolidation of workloads from older servers onto the underutilized high-performance servers, making efficient use of their resources and allowing for the retirement of the older, unreliable hardware.

You Have Ten Servers in Your Datacenter Running Windows Server