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

HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Fully Virtualized Partitioning)

The newest solution in HP's partitioning continuum is called HP Integrity Virtual Machines. This is a fully virtualized environment for running applications. You can run what is called the virtual machine host on any Integrity system or nPartition. On top of the VM host, you run virtual machines, which present themselves to the operating system inside the VM as a physical server. However, all of the resources of that system are virtualized. The physical CPUs, memory, and I/O devices are managed by the VM and what the VMs see is a virtual resource that is mapped on top of the physical devices in the system. This allows the physical resources to be shared by multiple OS images.

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