Global Workload Manager Overview
Global Workload Manager is the second-generation workload management application in HP's Virtual Server Environment. gWLM's architecture provides a centralized management model for defining workloads and their associated policies. This makes possible resource sharing by utilizing several of the dynamic system capabilities in HP's Virtual Server Environment such as virtual partitions, processor sets, and fair-share schedule groups. The association of policies with workloads increases system utilization by increasing the level of resource-sharing between workloads. Policies can be used instead to isolate resources to specific workloads.
Figure 19-1 shows an example configuration for gWLM. This example illustrates ...
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