Technology features and benefits

The following table provides an overview of the key features and benefits of the HP technology

portfolio offerings that are discussed in this paper.

 

Table 1. Technology features and benefits

Technology

Features and benefits

HP VSE

"

Maximize resource utilization by consolidating multiple

applications onto a single server.

"

Reduce hardware acquisition and management costs.

"

Double resource utilization by automatically adjusting resource

allocation by priority.

"

Maintain continuous service levels through tight integration with

HA and disaster tolerance offerings.

"

Link payments to usage through utility pricing.

HP Partitioning

Continuum

"

Part of the HP VSE.

"

Achieve greater control over isolating operational

environments.

"

Utilize multiple partitioning options, such as hard partitions,

virtual machines, virtual partitions, secure resource partitions.

nPars

"

Run multiple applications and/or different OS images (including

multiple OS versions) in multiple nPars within a single system.

This provides a stable platform for IT consolidation.

"

Increase uptime by providing for complete electrical and

software isolation. This ensures that applications continue to run

when a different partition experiences hardware, software, or

maintenance downtime.

vPars

"

Increase system utilization by using software-based partitions

that offer better resource granularity than hard partitions.

"

Achieve greater flexibility, capacity, and agility of resources,

through: (1) multiple, independent operating environments per

server, and (2) the dynamic movement of CPU power between

vPars (without reboot) as needed for workload requirements.

"

Implement practical consolidation on enterprise-class servers by

running multiple workloads with their unique OS configuration

needs on the same server at the same time.

"

Improve system availability with isolation of: OS, applications,

and assigned resources (CPU, memory, and I/O). Configure or

reboot individual partitions without affecting other partitions

and their applications.

"

Improve performance and productivity by uniquely tuning

individual vPars for their own applications and workloads.

"

Deploy new environments rapidly, without investing in more

hardware.

HP Integrity VM

"

Software virtualization with similar OS isolation as vPars.

"

Support sub-CPU resource allocations and shared I/O to

efficiently use server resources with small to moderate sized

workloads.

"

Support HP-UX 11i today with Linux, Windows, and OpenVMS

support in the future.

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