HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Business white paper

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Services and delivery
Lifecycle services
HP offers services to assist with virtualization in each
phase of the technology lifecycle. HP services profes-
sionals will help with installation and ongoing support
of HP Insight Dynamics – VSE, while evolving your
virtualization initiative to make it a strategic enabler
of the business.
Lifecycle services include:
•StrategizetounderstandthepotentialofHPInsight
Dynamics – VSE and assess its impact on your
existing virtual and physical environment.
•DesignandintegrateHPInsightDynamics–VSE
into your technology management and automation
framework across the data center.
•InstallandimplementHPInsightDynamics–VSE
easily into your existing environment.
•Transitionyourlegacyenvironmentsintoanew
virtualization architecture that includes HP Insight
Dynamics – VSE.
•Makecontinualimprovementontheservicelevels
you deliver to the business.
Delivery options
•ForHPProLiantservers,thesoftwareisdelivered
through the HP Insight Dynamics – VSE suite for
ProLiant servers, building on the Insight Control
Environment. This also includes HP Server Migration
software.
•ForHPIntegrityservers,thecapabilitiesofHPInsight
Dynamics – VSE are available through the HP Virtual
Server Environment suite or the HP-UX Virtual Server
Operating Environment.
•HPInsightCapacityAdvisorConsolidationsoftware
provides a limited time license of just the capacity
planning capabilities for both ProLiant and Integrity
servers.
•YoucanextendthecorecapabilitiesoftheHPInsight
Dynamics – VSE suite by adding the optional HP
Insight Orchestration extension to enable automated
infrastructure provisioning and repurposing and HP
Insight Recovery for disaster recovery.
New ways to tackle
the toughest technology
projects
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE creates new possibilities
for addressing your toughest technology challenges
and top business priorities in previously unimaginable
ways. Here are a few of the ways to put the software
to work to drive better business outcomes:
Continuous consolidation
Transform long-term projects into ongoing efforts.
Today, server consolidation is typically conducted
one project at a time, often over one to five years.
Once completed, the process begins again. HP Insight
Dynamics – VSE changes the ground rules of the con-
solidation game. It accelerates your large-scale con-
solidation projects and then lets you optimize your
resources on a more continuous basis.
First, HP Insight Dynamics – VSE lets you quickly eval-
uate different scenarios for consolidating older and
under-utilized physical servers onto virtual machines.
Using thousands of historical data points for each