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

Praise for The HP Virtual Server Environment"This book will educate professionals about the components of a virtual server environment and how to manage them in everyday tasks. It demonstrates how to manage resource utilization in real time and to its full capacity. Bryan and Dan are fully qualified to write this book, having been involved in creating and designing a number of the virtual server environment components."—D'Ann Chorak, Software Engineering Project Manager"Great overviews, technology details, and practical example details."—George Williams, Solution Architect, Hewlett-Packard Co."From a customer standpoint, almost anyone can make use of the solutions and concepts portrayed in The HP Virtual Server Environment. Some of the solutions are free, so there are ways to take advantage at no cost. No matter what solution is used, the results are a win-win situation for the customer."—Alan Hymes, Solution Architect, Hewlett-Packard Co."The material is well-written. The book will appeal to high-end enterprise system administrators and architects who are interested in implementing an 'Adaptive Enterprise' environment or in improving an existing environment."—Rob Lucke, Chief Solutions Officer, Vista Solutions Corp."This book is perfect for those looking for a high level overview of VSE and those investigating the use of VSE technologies in their data center."—Erik Bostrom, Engineering Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard Co."The HP Virtual Server Environment represents a nearly exhaustive discourse on the basic and common capabilities of the software. The casual user will come away feeling that they understand the purpose and general use of the programs and confident that they can integrate these capabilities within their server environment."—Dave Butenof, Instant Capacity and PPU Software Architect, Hewlett-Packard Co.Use HP virtualization to maximize IT service quality, agility, and valueIncludes coverage of HP's new Integrity Virtual Machines, Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity AdvisorPlan, implement, and manage virtualization to drive maximum business valueUnderstand HP's virtualization solutions for partitioning, utility pricing, high availability, and management for HP Integrity and HP 9000 serversManage your existing resources to drive unprecedented levels of utilizationVirtualization offers IT organizations unprecedented opportunities to enhance service quality, improve agility, and reduce cost by creating an automated bala