Dynamic conversion of hardware resources of a server system

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• entering a server conversion of a first server while a second server performs one or more network services;
• verifying a current physical hardware configuration and logical hardware configuration of a first server and a second server;
• calculating possible conversions of one or more valid logical hardware configurations and one or more valid physical hardware configurations based on the current hardware configurations of the first server and the second server, wherein the calculating possible conversions of one or more valid logical hardware configurations is further based on allowable mismatches between logical hardware configurations of the first server and the second server;
• selecting a valid physical hardware configuration for both servers from the calculated possible conversions;
• installing all physical hardware for the conversion of the physical hardware configuration of the first server to the selected valid physical hardware configuration;
• and
• converting the current logical configuration of the first server to a valid logical hardware configuration based on the calculated possible conversions, wherein the valid logical hardware configuration uses less hardware than the selected valid physical hardware configuration.

A computer comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory is encoded with instructions, and wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to perform a method comprising:
• entering a server conversion of a first server while a second server performs one or more network services;
• verifying a current physical hardware configuration and logical hardware configuration of a first server and a second server;
• calculating possible conversions of one or more valid logical hardware configurations and one or more valid physical hardware configurations based on the current hardware configurations of the first server and the second server, wherein the calculating possible conversions of one or more valid logical hardware configurations is further based on allowable mismatches between logical hardware configurations of the first server and the second server;
• selecting a valid physical hardware configuration for both servers from the calculated possible conversions;
• installing all physical hardware for the conversion of the physical hardware configuration of the first server;
• and
• converting the current logical configuration of the first server to a valid logical hardware configuration based on the calculated possible conversions, wherein the valid logical hardware configuration uses less hardware than the selected valid physical hardware configuration.