The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Choosing a Partitioning Solution

Given all the partitioning solutions that are available, it can be a daunting task to decide which of these would best meet the needs for your particular situation. The real answer is likely to be that you will want to take advantage of some combination. However, we first want to focus on each technology individually; we will discuss some interesting combinations later in this chapter.

There are a number of key benefits that you get from partitioning in general. These include:

• Application isolation: The ability to run multiple workloads on a system at the same time while ensuring that no single workload can impact the normal running of any other workload.

• Increased system utilization: This is an outgrowth of ...