Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment

Intelligent Control

The intelligent-control capabilities of VSE allow IT to maximize the effectiveness of the servers in the

virtualized infrastructure. These capabilities include:

 Analyzing, planning, and optimizing server utilization by using historical data and predictive

modeling with Capacity Advisor

 Visualizing the relationships of physical servers, hard partitions, virtual partitions, virtual

machines, and workloads with HP Virtualization Manager

 Automating the allocation of physical resources to workloads based on policies with HP

Global Workload Manager

Partitioning

VSE partitioning allows IT to subdivide physical servers into smaller partitions for managing workloads

separately from a resource perspective. This subdivision of a server provides two major benefits:

• Reduced hardware cost resulting from stacking multiple workloads on a single server

• Better overall throughput by using shared resource pools to balance usage peaks and valleys.

Partitioning can be further differentiated by hardware and software partitioning techniques

including:

• nPartitions (nPars)

• Virtual Partitions (vPars)

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines

• Secure Resource Partitions (SRP)

Availability

VSE improves availability by configuring the automated failover of workloads from one server to

another. The integration of high availability capabilities with virtualization techniques allows the

For more information: http://www.hp.com/go/partitions