Hoping to better enable customers to automatically
adjust resources within a pooled server environment, HP has added
capabilities to its Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity
servers.
The new HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Reference
Architecture for Oracle Real Application Clusters for HP-UX 11i
dynamically scales the Integrity server infrastructure when
mission-critical Oracle database workloads fluctuate. For example,
customers can use the capability to automatically allocate
additional server capacity to financial applications during the
month-end close.
HP says it has further integrated HP Serviceguard for HP-UX 11i
with HP Integrity Virtual Machines for those concerned about the
availability of their mission-critical Unix environments when they
consolidate using virtualisation. Available with the latest release
of HP Serviceguard, this functionality is designed to guard against
failure by automatically moving the virtual machines between
servers in a VSE.
The computer giant says that demand for virtualisation is
growing: it boasts 70% shipment growth for key virtualisation
technologies in the past year, reinforcing a recent IDC assessment
that spending on virtualisation will continue at significant growth
rates and reach $15bn by 2009.
"By consolidating our HP infrastructure via HP virtualisation
technologies, we are now able to nimbly respond to changing
workloads while saving almost $200,000 in the process," reveals
Clive Cranshaw, technical administrator of HP customer Royal
London.