Independent Software Vendor Support

HP has been shipping Resource Partitioning for over 10 years and Workload Management for over five, and we frequently get the question—“How do the ISVs support this technology?” The problem can really be broken down into three key issues—whether the application can run in a partitioned environment, how it responds to automatic changes to resource entitlements, and whether there are any price breaks or penalties for using these technologies.

ISV Support of Partitions

We are primarily focused here on whether there will be any issues with an application being able to run correctly inside a partition. We will cover licensing later.

For nPars there is no issue. Each nPar is a fully electrically isolated set of hardware ...

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