How to migrate HP-UX workloads between physical and virtual servers easily

HP Matrix Operating Environment architecture

Logical severs and portability groups are typical entities of the HP Matrix OE software stack. Figure 3 explains its global

architecture, with the basement consisting of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) performing discovery, inventory,

and monitoring of managed nodes.

Figure 3. Matrix OE architecture

As an associated plug-in, the Logical Server Manager (LSM) gets information to and from the Storage Provisioning

Manager (SPM), the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) and the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

For the scope of this white paper, we will concentrate only on the interaction of LSM with VCEM and VMM.

Consider LSM as an abstraction module between low-level components (VMM, VCEM, and SPM) and the ultimate

infrastructure orchestration (IO) layer. IO is made of several components, allowing the design of service templates,

self-service provisioning, and operating system deployment.