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

ISV Considerations

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are increasingly moving toward more flexible technologies. The market is moving in this direction in a big way, and the ISVs have lagged behind the hardware vendors. There are really two things to consider when determining how well an ISV application will support these technologies. The first is whether the ISV applications can run normally in an environment where resources can be turned on and off in a utility fashion and the second is whether ISVs will provide pricing options that will make using these solutions even more beneficial.

ISV Support

This is virtually the same topic as we covered in Chapter 3—how well do ISV applications run in an environment where resources are being activated ...