Virtualizing IT resources is an essential step towards becoming an Adaptive Enterprise, where business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change.
HP Virtual Server Environment
for HP Integrity and HP 9000
serversOptimize server utilization in real time"By moving from IBM to HP Integrity servers running
HP-UX 11i, we gain a common, standards-based
platform that delivers the high performance and reliability
our life-critical applications demand today-with the
scalability to support next-generation 9-1-1 applications
in the future. In addition, HP Virtual Server Environment
enables Intrado to optimize resource utilization to
improve business agility and reduce costs, while
supporting
the dynamic needs of our customers."
Stephen Meer, Chief Technology Officer, Intrado, Inc.
2Virtualize your IT resources so supply Optimize server utilization in meets demand. real time.Your business is dynamic. Faced with unpredictable market The HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integritypressures and limited resources, you must be faster, better, and HP 9000 servers allows enterprises to achieve aand more efficient than your competition in order to greater return on their IT investments by optimizing serverremain both competitive and profitable. This is a resource utilization in real time based on businesschallenge in today's typical IT environment, where most priorities. The environment creates virtual servers that canresources are static and inflexible. Many infrastructures automatically grow and shrink based on the service-levelare unable to provide the elasticity that today's business objectives set for each application they host. Through requires because the majority of servers are sized to tight integration with partitioning, high availability, andhandle peak workloads rather than average ones. As a utility pricing, HP VSE allows enterprises to maintainresult, these servers are largely underutilized, and millions service levels in the event of downtime and to pay forof dollars in server resources-CPUs and memory-may spare capacity on an as-needed basis.lie idle most of the time. The HP VSE provides intelligent control of your virtualizedYou need an IT environment that mirrors your business- environment through integrated planning, management,one that responds to business demand by dynamically and automation, allowing you to consolidate multiplesupplying computing resources as they are needed. applications on a single server and manage clusters asBy virtualizing your IT resources, you can make more one entity without compromising performance. HP VSEeffective use of them. Virtualization is an approach to IT utilizes all available server capacity while providing thethat pools and shares resources so utilization is optimized highest-priority applications with additional resourcesand supply automatically meets demand. The HP Virtual during peak times. For example, with HP VSE, yourServer Environment, HP's virtualization solution for customer-facing online applications will have the resourcesHP Integrity and HP 9000 servers, can help you increase they require to provide a superior customer experience.the return on your IT investments and be more agile at the same time. And virtualizing your IT resources is an With HP VSE, your server environment will effortlesslyessential step toward becoming an Adaptive Enterprise, balance supply and demand based on your businesswhere business and IT are synchronized to capitalize requirements, helping your organization reduce costs on change. and be more agile at the same time.
3Double your resource utilization. Because server resource allocation is dynamic, based onbusiness priorities, no human intervention is required. Traditionally, data centers have dedicated servers for HP VSE lets you be confident that your servers willeach application, with each server configured to handle respond automatically as opportunities arise and thethe peak load of the application it hosts. In these business ebbs and flows. environments, most server capacity goes unused most ofthe time-average utilization rates of less than 25% are With HP VSE, your IT team can confidently meet theirnot uncommon. service-level objectives. They won't be struggling tobalance processing demands across static, inflexibleBy virtualizing your server resources, the HP VSE reduces server configurations because HP VSE dynamicallythe need for you to configure servers with excess capacity allocates available virtual resources, so service objectivesto handle current and future... [download for more]
