Chapter Overview

The Virtual Server Environment is HP's answer to the need for increased utilization and application isolation on large servers. Partitioning Solutions isolate applications on a large server while still allowing the partitions to share resources. Utility Pricing Solutions provide the ability to add resources to a server when it is convenient and remove them when they are no longer needed. And finally, management tools simplify the management and maintenance of this dynamic environment.

One of the side effects of virtualization and the flexibility that these technologies provide is that management of the VSE can be more challenging. You now have resources freely moving between partitions, workloads moving between systems in high-availability ...

Get The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.