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

Workload Manager and Virtual Partitions Scenario

The first example scenario illustrates the use of WLM across two vPars, migrating CPUs between them as the workloads demand. This scenario is an extension of the scenario described in Chapter 7, “Secure Resource Partitions.” In this scenario, instead of fixed-size virtual partitions that use PRM to allocate the resources to each of the Secure Resource Partitions, Workload Manager is used to migrate CPUs between the two virtual partitions based on the demands of the workloads. Table 15-1 shows the high-level configuration of each of the Secure Resource Partitions and the virtual partitions that contain them.

Table 15-1. Virtual Partition and Secure Resource Partition Configurations

Workload Group ...