September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
14h 50m
English
book
The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter
by Dan Herington, Bryan Jacquot
Overview
Praise for The HP Virtual Server Environment
"This book will educate professionals about the components of a virtual server environment and how to manage them in everyday tasks. It demonstrates how to manage resource utilization in real time and to its full capacity. Bryan and Dan are fully qualified to write this book, having been involved in creating and designing a number of the virtual server environment components."
—D'Ann Chorak, Software Engineering Project Manager
"Great overviews, technology details, and practical example details."
—George Williams, Solution Architect, Hewlett-Packard Co.
"From a customer standpoint, almost anyone can make use of the solutions and concepts portrayed in The HP Virtual Server Environment. Some of the solutions are free, so there are ways to take advantage at no cost. No matter what solution is used, the results are a win-win situation for the customer."
—Alan Hymes, Solution Architect, Hewlett-Packard Co.
"The material is well-written. The book will appeal to high-end enterprise system administrators and architects who are interested in implementing an 'Adaptive Enterprise' environment or in improving an existing environment."
—Rob Lucke, Chief Solutions Officer, Vista Solutions Corp.
"This book is perfect for those looking for a high level overview of VSE and those investigating the use of VSE technologies in their data center."
—Erik Bostrom, Engineering Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard Co.
"The HP Virtual Server Environment represents a nearly exhaustive discourse on the basic and common capabilities of the software. The casual user will come away feeling that they understand the purpose and general use of the programs and confident that they can integrate these capabilities within their server environment."
—Dave Butenof, Instant Capacity and PPU Software Architect, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Use HP virtualization to maximize IT service quality, agility, and value
Includes coverage of HP's new Integrity Virtual Machines, Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity Advisor
Plan, implement, and manage virtualization to drive maximum business value
Understand HP's virtualization solutions for partitioning, utility pricing, high availability, and management for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers
Manage your existing resources to drive unprecedented levels of utilization
Virtualization offers IT organizations unprecedented opportunities to enhance service quality, improve agility, and reduce cost by creating an automated balance in system resources. Now, there's a comprehensive guide to virtualization based on the industry's most flexible and complete solution: HP's Virtual Server Environment (VSE).
Two leading HP architects and customer consultants help you identify the best "sweet spot" VSE solution for your environment—and plan, implement, and manage it.
The HP Virtual Server Environment systematically introduces VSE technologies for partitioning, utility pricing, high availability, and management, as well as HP's powerful, unique goal-based approach to workload management. Whether you're a solution designer, architect, or engineer, you'll find realistic examples, deep insight, and practical tips, all with one goal: to help you maximize the business value of virtualization.
Architect flexible, dynamic configurations that adapt instantly to business requirements
Choose the right solutions from HP's partitioning continuum: nPars, vPars, HP Integrity Virtual Machines, and Secure Resource Partitions
Use utility pricing solutions to deploy instant, temporary, or pay-per-use capacity wherever you need it
Improve utilization and control your virtual environment with HP-UX Workload Manager, HP Serviceguard, HP Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity Advisor
Integrate VSE technologies into heterogeneous HP-UX, Linux, and Windows environments on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers
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