HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

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Introducing HP Integrity
Essentials Virtualization
Manager and
HP Capacity Advisor
Hewlett-Packard Company and Pearson
Education are pleased to offer this extract of
two chapters of the new book, The HP Virtual
Server Environment: Making the Adaptive
Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter,
by authors Dan Herington and Bryan Jacquot.
These two chapters will serve as a means to
help you understand and implement two new
products from HP: HP Virtualization Manager
and HP Capacity Advisor.
HP Virtualization Manager (Chapter 17)
HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager
software for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers
provides a central point of control for
managing all the resources in a Virtual Server
Environment. It is a powerful way to connect
IT resources to real business needs.
HP Virtualization Manager includes an easy-
to-use interface that shows you what your
available virtual resources are, how they’re
being used, and how they relate to your
physical infrastructure. It also allows you to
seamlessly configure VSE tools in real time.
With HP Virtualization Manager, you can
spend less time managing your virtualized IT
infrastructure—and still make data-center
optimization a reality.
HP Capacity Advisor (Chapter 18)
HP Capacity Advisor enables you to view
historical utilization using an intuitive
graphical interface. With it, you can better
match workloads to server resources by
pretesting several different scenarios before
you make changes to critical applications. By
running multiple scenarios before updating
your system, you gain valuable insights that
allow you to make better decisions and get
more out of your existing server resources.
Because HP designed Capacity Advisor to be
used by general server administrators, your IT
group can use it to balance server utilization
on an ongoing basis—not just at the time of
initial deployment. HP Capacity Advisor
streamlines the process of matching workloads
to existing resources in your virtualized IT
infrastructure, lowering your overall IT costs
and providing a better return on your IT
investment.
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Management of the HP Virtual Server
Environment—integrated planning,
management, and automation of
virtual resources for improved server
utilization