HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

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server Physical server:

Hardware that can run one or more operating systems, including a partitionable complex.

Also, hardware that can run an instance of the vPars monitor. Server hardware includes one

or more cabinets containing all the available processing cores, memory, I/O, and power

and cooling components. HP Integrity servers include two types of server hardware:

standalone servers and cell-based servers.

2. Virtual server:

A software-based virtual environment that can run an operating system. A virtual server

includes a subset of the server hardware resources, including cores, memory, and I/O.

Virtual servers may be virtual partitions under vPars or virtual machines under Integrity VM.

3. Systems Insight Manager uses the term “server” for any standalone server, nPartition, or

virtual server that is running an instance of an operating system or an instance of the vPars

monitor.

See also system.

Service Processor An independent support processor for HP servers that support nPartitions. The Service Processor

provides a menu of service-level commands, plus commands to reset and reboot nPartitions and

configure various parameters.

The Service Processor in HP servers is sometimes called the Management Processor (MP) or the

Guardian Service Processor (GSP).

Serviceguard Specialized software for protecting mission-critical applications from a wide variety of hardware

and software failures. With Serviceguard, multiple servers (nodes) and/or server partitions are

organized into an enterprise cluster that delivers highly available application services to

LAN-attached clients. HP Serviceguard monitors the health of each node and rapidly responds

to failures in a way that minimizes or eliminates application downtime.

Serviceguard

cluster

A Serviceguard cluster is a networked grouping of HP 9000 or HP Integrity servers (host systems

known as nodes) having sufficient redundancy of software and hardware that a single point of

failure will not significantly disrupt service.

Serviceguard

package

Packages are the means by which Serviceguard starts and halts configured applications. A

package is a collection of services, disk volumes and IP addresses that are managed by

Serviceguard to ensure they are available.

Serviceguard

workload

A monitored workload associated with a Serviceguard cluster and a particular package within

the cluster. The workload (and the utilization data reported) follows the package it is associated

with as it moves between the nodes of the cluster.

simulation A mock situation (scenario) that allows you to experiment with various capacity-planning solutions.

SMH See HP SMH.

standalone server Hardware that can run one or more operating systems but does not support dividing hardware

resources into nPartitions.

system A server, nPartition, virtual partition, or virtual machine that is running an instance of an

operating system.

2. Entities on the network that communicate through TCP/IP or IPX. To manage a system, some

type of management protocol (for example, SNMP, DMI, or WBEM) must be present on the

system. Examples of systems include servers, workstations, desktops, portables, routers,

switches, hubs, and gateways.