An introduction to the products and features of HP-UX Containers

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Figure 2: HP-UX Containers and the Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX
HP-UX Containers is a component of the Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX and is compatible with HP-UX nPartitions,
HP-UX vPar, and Integrity Virtual Machine (VM) solutions. You can create containers in any HP-UX OS image; the OS
image can exist in an nPartition, vPar, Integrity VM, or directly on non-partitioned server hardware.
Why HP-UX Containers?
HP-UX Containers provides an ideal operating environment for consolidating multiple workloads on a single system.
This reduces the number of operating system environments requiring administration and support, minimizing “OS
sprawl” issues encountered with other virtualization models. Container technology is built into the operating system
itself, which allows containers to support small to large workloads with negligible overhead. HP-UX Containers
simplifies system resource management by providing the ability to automatically balance CPU and memory needs of
workloads running in containers. This “set and forget” method that lets HP-UX Containers dynamically adjust to meet
capacity requirements is balanced by an ability to cap the amount of CPU or memory that a container can use.