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

Combining Partitioning Solutions

The various partitioning solutions in the VSE are almost arbitrarily stackable. The only exception is the fact that you cannot run Integrity VM and vPars in the same nPar. Inside each partition type you can run:

• nPartitions: Virtual Partitions, Integrity VMs, or Secure Resource Partitions. In other words, you can run any one of these to subdivide each nPar. In addition, you can mix and match these in any combination in separate nPars.

• Virtual Partitions: Secure Resource Partitions. You can run SRPs inside vPars if you want to save on the management and maintenance costs of separate OS images for each application.

• Integrity VM: Secure Resource Partitions. You can run SRPs inside VMs as well.

If we take a look ...