Application Discovery 6.0 Software: User Guide

VM Host A server running software such as HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or Microsoft
Virtual Server, that provides multiple virtual machines, each running its own instance of an
operating system.
warmup The period of time during which Application Discovery is comparing discovered processes to
the known installations of software and to template definitions of applications.
WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management. A set of web-based information services standards
developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. A WBEM provider offers access to
a resource. WBEM clients send requests to providers to get information about and access to the
registered resources.
Web-Based
Enterprise
Management
See WBEM.
whole-OS
workload
The entire OS instance is considered a workload for recognition by Insight Dynamics
components.
workload The collection of processes in a standalone server, nPartition compartment, virtual partition
compartment, or virtual machine compartment. HP Insight Global Workload Manager software
for Integrity (gWLM) extends this concept to include processor set compartments and Fair-Share
Scheduler group compartments. gWLM enables you to monitor and manage workloads by
automatically adjusting the resource allocations of compartments based on policies.
See also managed workload, monitored workload, Serviceguard workload.
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