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Virtualize your IT resources so supply meets demand.
Your business is dynamic. Faced with unpredictable market pressures and limited resources, you must be faster, better, and more efficient than your competition in order to remain both competitive and profitable. This is a challenge in today's typical IT environment, where most resources are static and inflexible. Many infrastructures are unable to provide the elasticity that today's business requires because the majority of servers are sized to handle peak workloads rather than average ones. As a result, these servers are largely underutilized, and millions of dollars in server resources?CPUs and memory?may lie idle most of the time.
You need an IT environment that mirrors your business? one that responds to business demand by dynamically supplying computing resources as they are needed. By virtualizing your IT resources, you can make more effective use of them. Virtualization is an approach to IT that pools and shares resources so utilization is optimized and supply automatically meets demand. The HP Virtual Server Environment, HP's virtualization solution for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers, can help you increase the return on your IT investments and be more agile at the same time. And virtualizing your IT resources is an essential step toward becoming an Adaptive Enterprise, where business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change.
Optimize server utilization in real time.
The HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers allows enterprises to achieve a greater return on their IT investments by optimizing server resource utilization in real time based on business priorities. The environment creates virtual servers that can automatically grow and shrink based on the service-level objectives set for each application they host. Through tight integration with partitioning, high availability, and utility pricing, HP VSE allows enterprises to maintain service levels in the event of downtime and to pay for spare capacity on an as-needed basis.
The HP VSE provides intelligent control of your virtualized environment through integrated planning, management, and automation, allowing you to consolidate multiple applications on a single server and manage clusters as one entity without compromising performance. HP VSE utilizes all available server capacity while providing the highest-priority applications with additional resources during peak times. For example, with HP VSE, your customer-facing online applications will have the resources they require to provide a superior customer experience. With HP VSE, your server environment will effortlessly balance supply and demand based on your business requirements, helping your organization reduce costs and be more agile at the same time.
Double your resource utilization.
Traditionally, data centers have dedicated servers for each application, with each server configured to handle the peak load of the application it hosts. In these environments, most server capacity goes unused most of the time?average utilization rates of less than 25% are not uncommon.
By virtualizing your server resources, the HP VSE reduces the need for you to configure servers with excess capacity to handle current and future peak workloads. By allowing several applications to run on one server without interfering with each other, you can consolidate underutilized servers. By reducing the number of servers in your data center, you can dramatically reduce your hardware acquisition and server management costs. As your business needs change or new applications are added, your server environment will automatically adapt to address additional demands by utilizing your server capacity more efficiently.
Maintain continuous service levels.
The HP VSE makes it easier, faster, and less expensive to provide additional server capacity when needed. HP VSE can automatically assess when your servers need additional resources based on business demand, and then automatically adjust server capacity within minutes or seconds?as opposed to hours, days, or weeks. Because server resource allocation is dynamic, based on business priorities, no human intervention is required. HP VSE lets you be confident that your servers will respond automatically as opportunities arise and the business ebbs and flows.
With HP VSE, your IT team can confidently meet their service-level objectives. They won't be struggling to balance processing demands across static, inflexible server configurations because HP VSE dynamically allocates available virtual resources, so service objectives are honored according to priority.
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