HP Logical Server Management Best Practices

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Import is valuable when a workload is already running in a virtual machine or on a physical blade, and can be used
to create a logical server representing a virtual machine hypervisor.
There are parallels between storage provisioning in a virtual environment and a physical blade environment. For
virtual machines, it is common for the storage administrator to pre-allocate a large volume on the SAN and the server
administrator consumes space as required (for example, as virtual machines are created). The same type of storage
pre-allocation works well in a blade environment with Virtual Connect. The storage administrator allocates several
SAN volumes that logical servers will consume for boot and data as necessary. In both cases, virtual machines and
Virtual Connect blades, the server administrator may need to return to the storage administrator to have more storage
allocated, as required. SPM provides the additional opportunity to enable on-demand storage provisioning (creating
the volumes as they are required, rather than in advance).