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

Chapter Overview

It's 7:00 PM. By now most end users are sitting down in their recliners at home, reading the paper. Not Toshi. Toshi has been asked to consolidate workloads in the data center onto fewer servers. Toshi logs into a few of his primary servers and begins to gather data. He is using HP OpenView to gather the empirical utilization data for each server, but Toshi fully understands the usage patterns of the workloads in his data center. In fact, he probably knows them better than OpenView does. He knows that 90% of the web server use is during normal business hours. Additionally, there are several build machines that are only used during the night for automated software builds. Toshi understands that further investigation will only ...