HP UX Virtualization Brochure

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2With growing business demands and challenges, you want to get the most utilization out of the servers you have. You also want the flexibility to move your resources and workloads around as needed, to meet your fluctuating business requirements.

Consolidating your IT resources from smaller, dedicated servers to a streamlined environment of fewer, larger serverseach capable of hosting multiple applications and workloadscan help you: save money, increase service levels, and reduce complexity.

Which vendor can best help you achieve your utilization and consolidation goals? Which company brings a technological advantage to the table that can turn a great idea into a real difference to your bottom line? Before consolidating your IT resources, you need to consider a lot of factors. Without an expert to help you, consolidation can become a complex task.

HP expertise and experience, proven by its own IT consolidation, can help you achieve your goals. Lets look at one of the basic enablers of consolidation: server virtualization. The right combination of isolation and flexibility, along with a solid understanding of how virtualization can impact server utilization, is critical to success.

Value delivered straight to your server With HP-UX 11i v3, simplify and unify IT, and deliver the always-on resiliency, dynamic optimization, and investment protection and stability needed to meet your mission-critical computing requirements. Increase flexibility, while reducing risk and delivering compelling value, within the industrys first mission-critical converged infrastructure, ideal for mission-critical applications such as application and database servers.

Pre-test configurations with a broad range of ISV applications, presented in various reference architectures. And, enable your investments to evolve with your business with the module system design of HP Integrity servers and open standards.

Management tools made easyEnable your enterprise to achieve a greater return on IT investments. Create virtual servers that can automatically expand and shrink, based on the service-level objectives for the workloads hosted. Create virtual servers that can automatically expand and shrink, based on the service-level objectives for the workloads hosted. Dynamically enhance IT infrastructure with the integrated virtualization and infrastructure management tools included in HP Matrix Operating Environment (OE) for HP-UX 1, (and the greater HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Environment Operating Environment, VSE-OE).

Maintain service levels in the event of unexpected downtime with tight integration of HP-UX virtualization and infrastructure management with HP Serviceguard Solutions for high availability and disaster recovery. Reduce costs by dynamically allocating reserve capacity when needed, with HP Utility Pricing Solutions. Together, the powerfully integrated HP-UX virtualization and infrastructure management solutions dynamically align virtualization and resource utilization to your business and workload priorities.

1 Formerly HP Virtual Server Environment.

The HP Matrix Operating Environment 1 lets us stretch our resources and tailor them to the computing workloads we have at a specific time. Margarida Machado, information system manager, Sociedade Central de Cervejas

3Virtual solutions for virtually everythingWith HPs complete and comprehensive line of virtualization capabilities, known as HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX, get the most from your HP Integrity servers, and consequently, superior results from your IT consolidation efforts.

Do more with less With the HP Virtualization Continuum solutions, overcome one of the major challenges of the enterpriseconsolidating diverse workloads to most effectively optimize your computing resources and workload management, while improving Return on IT investment. Flexibly isolate your operational environments and applications to provide data center flexibility, security, and availability.

Electrically isolate your most critical workloads: Isolate workloads into separate hard partitions (nPartitions). Each nPartition acts as a separate physical server, with its own operating system, applications and resources. Electrically

separate hard partitions from each other, so hard failures are confined to the nPartition in which they occur. For reboots and most hardware upgrades, require only the affected nPartition(s) to be brought down. For resourcing flexibility, dynamically migrate processor core and memory usage rights between nPartitions. Utilize hard partitioning to provide the highest degree of isolation within a server. This keeps IT processes running to support your businessthe key to a mission-critical converged infrastructure.

With HP Matrix OE for HP-UX, your server environment can balance supply and demand based on your business requirements effortlessly, helping your organization reduce costs and increase service levels.

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Virtualize with high performance and scalability: With HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), a soft partitioning technology within HP Matrix OE for HP-UX (or HP-UX 11i VSE OE) add finer, core granularity to nPartitions, as well as the flexibility of dynamic resource migration. Run multiple workloads within an nPar or server, isolated within separate virtual partitions, each with their own: operating system, applications and resources. Assign processor core and memory resources to different vPars, and with vPars v6, share I/O resources. Deploy this simple methodology for high performance, high scalability, and predictable resourcing. For flexibility, dynamically move resources between vPars.

Virtualize with shared resourcing and mobility: Utilize Integrity VM, a software virtualization technology, to create multiple virtual servers, with shared resourcing and mobility, on HP Integrity servers or nPartitions. Isolate workloads within a VM, each with its own: operating system, applications, virtual resources and users. With Integrity VM, enjoy the flexibility of dynamically sharing processor cores and I/O between virtual machines. Utilize dynamic memory reallocation to easily increase/decrease VM memory, especially useful for disaster recovery. With the virtual network switch, connect multiple virtual machines through a single physical network connection. By putting the VM Host and guests in different Integrity privilege levels, provide a high level of software and security isolation between the VM Host and the virtual machines. With Online VM Migration, move a running Integrity VM, its guest OS, and applications to a different server or hard partition, without an OS reboot or application restart.

Reduce management overhead and licensing costs with shared O/S virtualization: Consolidate multiple workloads within a single HP-UX 11i v3 operating system image with the dynamic, shared resourcing of HP-UX Containers. Manage processor core and memory allocations with either a dedicated or minimum share model. Utilize granular resource control to enable applications to run in as little as one percent of a processor core, as with Integrity VM. In addition, this type of shared O/S

virtualization can be configured to provide highly granular security properties. Choose the type of container that best meets your workload requirements, either: workload containers (for easiest ongoing manageability), system containers (for easiest setup and sharing of system resources), and HP 9000 Containers (to consolidate older HP 9000 workloads onto HP Integrity servers.)

Getting started with IT consolidationIs your organization considering virtualization as part of an IT consolidation project? An IT consolidation initiative is an ambitious undertakingone that is best approached with a sound vision, detailed planning, and a team with extensive experience relevant to the project.

Leverage HPs proven expertise, collaborative partnering, and flexible approach to help you successfully consolidate your IT resources, to do more with less.

For more informationTo learn more about how the HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX can increase your server efficiency and assist your next IT consolidation initiative, visit: hp.com/go/hpuxvirtualization.

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