Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment

 Tools to view and report statistics on profiles

 The ability to forecast profile characteristics into the future based on past data and user-

supplied growth characteristic parameters

 A scenario model with editor for “what if” case studies including moving workloads to new

virtual or physical servers and combining workloads onto fewer physical servers

Figure 5 illustrates the Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer.

Figure 5: Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer

Configuring HP Virtual Partitions and HP Integrity Virtual Machines

The virtual partitioning and virtual machine technologies of VSE allow resources to be allocated

optimally to application and workload requirements. The ability to subdivide a server into smaller

virtual partitions or virtual machines improves the ability to run multiple workloads on common

resources and to dynamically share those resources to improve overall utilization.

Once a resource configuration is chosen, VSE provides the tools to perform all the required

administrative tasks to configure virtual partitions or virtual machines. In some cases partitioning

might require direct access to server hardware configuration which can be accomplished via a

network using the management processors in HP servers. In other cases the configuration can be done

by connecting to operating system instances already running on the server hardware either through a

terminal interface and command line tools or using HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).

For Integrity VM, a graphical configuration tool, HP Integrity Virtual Machine Manager, can be used.

When setting up new servers it is also common to configure clustering for high availability. With VSE,

this step is done using the HP Serviceguard Manager tool.