Summary

This chapter focused on the Utility Pricing solutions that are available for HP 9000 and Integrity servers. These are integrated with the other Virtual Server Environment solutions to provide additional flexibility and opportunity for cost savings.

The Instant Capacity and Temporary Instant Capacity solutions are useful for systems that have been purchased from HP or an authorized partner. These provide the ability to acquire a system with additional capacity built in which can then be activated either temporarily or permanently, depending on your needs.

The Pay-per-use solution is an alternative leasing model whereby the monthly lease payment varies based on the average CPU utilization of the server in the prior month.

All of these solutions ...

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