HP Insight Global Workload Manager 6.0 Software: User Guide

• Integration with HP-UX Security Containment
• Integration with netgroup user lists
• Integration with HP System Management Homepage (SMH)
Concepts and terms for using gWLM
Here are some concepts and terms to know when using gWLM:
Workload The collection of processes executing within a single
compartment. The compartment can be an nPartition
(npar), a virtual partition (vpar), a virtual machine
provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines (hpvm), a
processor set (pset), or a Fair Share Scheduler (fss) group.
gWLM manages a workload by adjusting the system
resource allocations for its compartment. (For background
information on npars, vpars, virtual machines, psets, and
fss groups, refer to the section “The gWLM management
model” (page 10).)
Compartment An npar, a vpar, a virtual machine, a pset, or an fss group
with its resource allocation being managed by gWLM.
Multiple compartments are grouped to form a shared
resource domain, or SRD. The compartments all share the
resources within the SRD. Each compartment holds a
workload and can be in only one deployed SRD. gWLM
manages each workload by adjusting the resource
allocation for its compartment.
8 Overview