HP-UX Workload Manager User's Guide

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1Introduction
This chapter introduces the basic concepts of performance management,
workload management, and HP-UX Workload Manager (WLM). It
covers:
• Performance and resource management overview
• What is workload management?
• What is HP-UX Workload Manager?
• Why use Workload Manager?
• WLM and partitions
• Examples of solutions that WLM provides
• What is the ideal environment for WLM?
• Using WLM on multiple servers
• WLM and Process Resource Manager (PRM)
• WLM product directory structure