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

Chapter Overview

Each of the technologies in HP's Virtual Server Environment provides environments with unique characteristics for hosting workloads. nPartitions, virtual partitions, virtual machines, and Secure Resource Partitions provide varying degrees of workload isolation, ranging from complete hardware isolation using nPartitions to resource isolation within an operating system using Secure Resource Partitions. In addition, each technology provides varying levels of granularity and flexibility with regard to resource allocation. The Utility Pricing strategies of HP's Virtual Server Environment, which include Instant Capacity and Temporary Instant Capacity, provide a means to purchase systems without initially activating all of the hardware, ...