HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Business white paper

Executive summary
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE suite for ProLiant is the
world’s first integrated solution that lets you continu-
ously analyze and optimize your physical and virtual
resources in exactly the same way. It combines the best
of the industry-leading HP infrastructure management
portfolio—including HP Systems Insight Manager, HP
Insight Control, and HP Virtual Server Environment—
into one integrated offering for HP BladeSystem and
HP ProLiant servers.
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The result is a single toolkit that
helps you accelerate complex technology projects and
simplify daily operations. HP Insight Dynamics – VSE
enables a change-ready infrastructure, with all the
freedom and flexibility of virtualization delivered
across your physical infrastructure.
New management
challenges
To deliver better business outcomes, today’s data
centers need to make better use of their resources.
Many suffer from a proliferation of under-utilized
servers that take up valuable floor space, drive
up power and cooling costs, and put a strain on
management resources.
Server virtualization helps data centers use resources
more efficiently. Virtualization is more than proven to
lower costs and increase flexibility. But virtual environ-
ments bring their own set of management challenges.
So even with virtualized solutions in place, data
centers around the world continue to wrestle with cost,
time, quality, and energy issues. These issues are the
heart of the need for HP Insight Dynamics – VSE suite
for ProLiant.
Lower cost.
Improving capacity planning
When it comes time for evaluating data center capacity
requirements, many data center managers find them-
selves living with spreadsheets and best guesses about
their dynamic environments. This leads to costly over-
provisioning of resources—just to be sure that systems
can meet the peak needs of some applications. So
capacity waste becomes a part of day-to-day business.
To solve this problem, you need better knowledge of
your environment, including detailed information on
system usage and workloads. That is one of the keys
to allocating virtual and physical resources in a more
flexible manner—and to avoiding over-provisioning.
But to make this shift to a more flexible world, you first
need better tools for capacity planning and resource
optimization.
Controlling virtual server sprawl
High on this list of virtualization challenges is the need
to combat “virtual sprawl”—which comes on top of the
pre-existing problem of physical server sprawl. With
the ease of deploying virtual machines (VMs), many
companies have found themselves with a proliferation
of virtual servers, which creates a whole new set of
management challenges. Ideally, virtual servers should
be provisioned and governed under the same policies
you use for your physical servers. That’s one of the keys
to simplifying management of a virtualized technology
environment.
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The capabilities of HP Insight Dynamics – VSE are available on HP Integrity
servers through the HP Virtual Server Environment suite or the HP-UX Virtual
Server Operating Environment. To learn more, visit www.hp.com/go/vse.
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