HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

Chapter Overview

Every year approximately 8 million commercial airline flights transport more than 500 million

passengers across the United States.

The aircraft form a web of traffic across the skies, congre-

gating at various hubs throughout the country. At every intersection in the web of airline traffic

are the air traffic controllers, who see to it the airline passengers and cargo are safely sent on their

way and received without incident. Air traffic controllers rely on several tools to keep the air-

planes safely traveling the skies. Among the most central is the Final Approach Spacing Tool

(FAST).

This software tool brings together several components that are critical for maintaining

safe and reliable air travel. For example, the FAST software integrates the radar and weather sys-

tems. Additionally, the FAST tool has integrated components that analyze the route and trajec-

tory of each aircraft. The FAST tool brings numerous technologies that have existed individually

for long periods of time together under a single interface. Using this tool, air traffic controllers

are able to more efficiently and safely use the available airspace and ground support resources while

ensuring that aircraft and passengers arrive safely at their destinations.

HP’s Virtualization Manager is similar in many ways to the FAST tool. Virtualization Manager

is a set of graphical user interfaces and technologies that bring the technologies in HP’s Virtual

Server Environment together into a single console. Administrators using Virtualization Manager

have all the information they need to deploy workloads, monitor applications, and maintain the

health of the datacenter. Like the air traffic controllers who rely on FAST to safely direct aircraft,

administrators who depend on Virtualization Manager are better equipped to efficiently utilize

hardware resources while ensuring that workloads meet their service-level objectives.

Virtualization Manager

USA Department of Transportation press release, “October Airline Traffic: Ten-Month Domestic Traf-

fic,” available at http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2005/bts004_05/html/bts004_05.html.

Center-TRACON Automation System under Dr. Dallas Denery, “Final Approach Spacing Tool,” available

at http://www.ctas.arc.nasa.gov/project_description/fast.html.