At my organization the hardware refreshes usually coincide with other major changes like application or software upgrades. Often times a clone is made of the s

At my organization the hardware refreshes usually coincide with other major changes like application or software upgrades. Often times a clone is made of the server to test out the upgrade process for an application, when this occurs the clone is usually newer hardware. That being said, this happens less frequently now as there's been a huge push to move from dedicated hardware to virtual instances in a cluster and now to cloud resources.