Introduction to the HP Virtual Server Environment

• Resources are automatically applied to workloads as they are needed according to business
rules defined by the customer.
• If necessary, workloads are moved to provide better resource allocation or high availability.
• Groups of systems are managed as a single entity, from a workload service and physical
perspective.
This requires a number of technologies. It requires the ability to run workloads in flexible partitions
that can be dynamically sized based on the load of the applications running in them. It requires the
ability to move workloads between systems transparently. It requires an integrated set of
management tools that provide a view into the environment so that administrators can know where
workloads are running, what resources they are using, what other workloads are running there, how
to optimize and load balance the resources, and how to plan for future growth.
HP’s VSE offers these technologies.
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