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Bringing the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers

A logical server profile is easily created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines. Logical servers can be physical blade servers,

virtual machines, or offline templates.

To control rising energy expenditures, data center

managers need to find ways to consolidate power-

hungry servers and factor energy consumption into

capacity planning decisions. Here again, this takes

better information, including tools that allow you

to make energy usage a key part of your capacity

planning decisions.

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE was designed specifically

to address these challenges that come with the optimi-

zation of a virtual and physical environment.

Overcoming the

challenges with HP

Insight Dynamics – VSE

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE is a new class of manage-

ment software that allows you to continuously analyze

and optimize your adaptive infrastructure. It’s the

world’s first integrated solution that lets you visualize,

plan, and change physical and virtual resources in

exactly the same way.

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE helps your enterprise:

•Reduce costs—HP estimates the software will cut

the cost of common data center tasks by as much as

40 percent, reducing costs associated with capacity

planning, provisioning, upgrades and changes, and

energy. Your enterprise can realize the cost benefits

of virtualization faster by cutting analysis time for

capacity planning and consolidation from months

to days. Complex spreadsheets and expensive

services engagements are replaced by instantly

available data.

•Increase speed of change—By collapsing steps and

saving administrative time with key tasks, enterprises

can accelerate key technology projects. For example,

moving a workload from one server to another with

a simple drag-and-drop function takes minutes, while

conventional approaches take weeks and often

require extensive coordination among server, storage,

and networking groups.

•Improve quality—HP Insight Dynamics – VSE soft-

ware enables everyday high availability previously

unavailable to many applications due to complex

and potentially expensive clustering requirements.

By easily redeploying logical servers in the event

of hardware failure, you can enjoy fast and afford-

able protection.

•Manage energy—Consolidation and virtualization

are great ways to save energy. But your actual

power savings may depend on the choices you

make. HP Insight Dynamics – VSE makes comparing

energy consumption of different data center config-

urations easy.

In essence, HP Insight Dynamics – VSE enables your

organization to get ahead of the curve by giving you

the information you need to proactively deal with

potential issues (such as performance, power, and

space constraints) before they become problems that

impact your business. You no longer have to wait for

a server to be overloaded or to experience an outage

requiring a recovery. And if failures do occur, the log-

ical server capability of HP Insight Dynamics – VSE,

and the fast provisioning it enables, make recovery

fast and easy to execute. You can now use HP Insight

Dynamics – VSE to ward off problems by balancing

resources across your data center to enable higher

levels of availability and quality of service.

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