This is exactly a server merge in concept. Where to buy WoW accounts What we've been thinking about for years in terms of "server merge" has always been about moving characters from multiple servers onto one with a single name. This goes a layer above that,safe WoW gold keeping servers intact but allowing them (potentially) to fully interact with each other as if they were all the same "server" as we think of them today. The benefit of doing it this way, I would guess, is that no character data has to be moved around in databases, just add a flag to the data for each server that identifies which Virtual Realm it belongs to. So when a request for a character's data is made, it would only have to get one additional piece of information (which VR). It's actually pretty clever, and probably a lot less work than literally merging servers.
And actually I thought of another benefit. If, right now, you took 10 distinct servers and merged them into one server, what if they find later that it creates too much instability? They'd have to split the server or kick some characters off, and it wouldn't have room to grow. But by doing it virtually, they can change a few numbers and increase/decrease the size of the Virtual Realm. There would still be angst of people getting removed from the VR they're used to, but from Blizzard's side much less manual labor involved, which means changes can happen faster/more responsively.
They're all still on the same physical server even after the change. Their realms are being virtually linked but there is no physical hardware change involved.
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