Technical white paper

Leverage real virtualization usage scenarios

on HP Integrity servers

Table of Contents
Introduction

What are the benefits of HP-UX virtualization and resource

management solutions on HP Integrity servers?

Choose the virtualization solutions that best meet the

requirements of your environment

Real virtualization usage scenarios on HP Integrity servers

Consolidate databases

Consolidate enterprise business environments

Consolidate enterprise disaster recovery backup environments

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Consolidate legacy, enterprise servers

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Consolidate multi-tiered applications within one server

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Conclusion

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Appendix

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For more information

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Introduction
Use the Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure as the foundation for the next decade of your computing. Combine
years of trusted HP Integrity resiliency with HP BladeSystem efficiencies in the newest line of HP Integrity systems.
Enjoy the key objectives of HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure ecosystem:

Simplify and unify ITwith a common, modular architecture from x86 to Superdome 2
Always-on resiliencya secure and reliable infrastructure from CPU to solution
Dynamic optimizationintegrated management and virtualization to optimally scale resources
Investment protection and stabilitysustained innovation, decades of support life, and compelling value
With this newest line of HP Integrity systems, based on the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy, attack IT sprawl with a
standards-based, modular bladed architecture that also includes common components and a common management
environment for all HP servers. Utilize this set of servers that are modular, modern, and easier to manage than
ever before.
This document is targeted to customers interested in using virtualization on the HP Integrity servers. Leverage common
usage scenarios using the different HP-UX virtualization technologies on these servers, and check out other sources for
more information.
Are you faced with inefficiencies and complexities in your server environment?
Did you originally implement applications on individual servers to minimize the impact to performance and availability to
existing applications? Did you configure new servers with enough capacity to handle the peak requirements of the
application with room for growth? Since these peak periods are seasonal and often last for short periods of time (such as
month or quarter end, Christmas holiday, etc), did you often over-provision the servers in your data center? Did you
deploy multi-tiered applications (database tier, application tier and/or Web tier) on multiple servers to optimize the
performance of each tier? Did you isolate development, test, and production environments on separate servers to avoid
negative impact?
As a result, do you have server sprawl? Many data centers are now encumbered with challenges around: floor space,
cabling, power and cooling, networking, management, and general complexity and inflexibility. In addition, there are too
many isolated and underutilized servers, and cost structures are high and unpredictable.
Why are you interested in virtualization and consolidation?
Are you faced with ongoing cost and efficiency pressures, and therefore, seeking to reduce your IT costs by tackling the
inefficiencies and complexity of your legacy IT infrastructures? Are you seeking ways to most effectively use your
computing assets while reducing your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?
Do you need to increase the flexibility of your computing environments, so that they can appropriately and
automatically respond to your every-changing business requirements and ever-increasing demands?
Do you need to ensure uptime of your IT resources, so you get the most out of your resources, and do not lose critical
data required for your operations?
To meet the needs for reducing costs, you probably often deploy virtualization, but at the same time need to ensure that
your deployment has the level of flexibility, manageability, high availability, and integration you need to best meet your
requirements.
While each of the examples in this white paper could have also been accomplished with multiple servers, virtualization
often best addresses these issues and requirements.

How the HP Converged Infrastructure provides the ideal mission-critical platform for consolidation
With the HP Converged Infrastructure overcome these challenges of IT sprawl and shift resources from operations to
innovation. Eliminate costly IT and application silos with a Converged Infrastructure, that grows as your needs grow.
Integrate and automate technologies into shared pools of interoperable resources, aligned with business processes.
Provide the ideal mission-critical platform for consolidation of databases, enterprise business applications, disaster
recovery servers and legacy servers, HP Integrity servers within the Mission Critical Converged Infrastructure. This is a
proven approach for reducing heterogeneous legacy sprawl in the data center. Combine processing power, I/O
bandwidth, extreme reliability, virtualization, and shared modularity with other HP Converged Infrastructure platforms,
for a cost-effective solution for your next generation data center.

What are the benefits of HP-UX virtualization and resource

management solutions on HP Integrity servers?
The following HP-UX virtualization and resource management solutions are offeredon all HP Integrity i2 servers:

HP-UX Containers
Process Resource Manager (PRM)
HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM or HPVM)
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) v6.1 (& beyond)
And additionally on the HP Superdome 2 servers:

HP nPartitions (nPars)
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) v5
HP Instant Capacity (iCAP)
Reduce costs through consolidation, and provide mechanisms for isolating workloads within servers to offer the
flexibility of dynamic resizing, while helping to ensure that applications enjoy protection from unrelated events that
could otherwise cause disruption, interruption, or performance degradation. When an application is isolated with these
solutions, make use of server resources, managed separately or within a group, and fulfill unique workload
requirements.
Use these solutions to:

Reduce costs through consolidation of enterprise-class servers

Increase availability through isolation of environments and enhanced application availability
Gain flexibility for ever-changing business requirements

Choose the virtualization solutions that best meet the

requirements of your environment
Below is a short description of the HP-UX virtualization and resource management solutions that are available on the
new HP Integrity servers.
Consolidate multiple workloads into 1 OS image with shared resourcing
With HP-UX Containers, included with all HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments, enable a shared OS virtualization model
to enable a single instance of the HP-UX operating system to host multiple application workloads within individual
operating environments. Dynamically and efficiently utilize shared server resources (CPU, memory, and network
access). Enable workloads to be portable, and migrated or cloned across servers for high availability and load
balancing purposes.

Within HP-UX Containers, utilize the HP 9000 Containers solution to significantly simplify transition from PA-RISCbased
HP 9000 HP-UX 11i v1 (and later) servers to HP Integrity HP-UX 11i v3 servers. Reduce the often intensive effort and
sometimes error-prone inventory collection of the applications being considered for such a transition. For complex
application environments, avoid the often tedious identification of application dependencies and components.
With HP 9000 Containers, enable quick transition of an application environment from an HP 9000 server to an HP-UX 11i v3
Operating System instance on an HP Integrity server. Rehost the complete HP 9000 user space environment without the
need to recompile and reinstall individual applications, and with minimal reconfiguration and application inventory
preparation effort.
Manage processor and memory allocation of your workloads with HP Process Resource Manager (PRM)
Utilize HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) to manage processor and memory allocation for your workloads. You may
use PRM to allocate portions of processors and memory to specific processes or users.
Virtualize with shared resourcing and mobility
Utilize Integrity VM, a software virtualization technology, to create multiple virtual servers, with shared resourcing and
mobility, on HP Integrity servers or nPartitions. Isolate workloads within a VM, each with its own: operating system,
applications, virtual resources and users. With Integrity VM, enjoy additional flexibility with built-in, dynamic, shared
resourcing between virtual machines. Utilize dynamic memory reallocation, to easily grow or shrink VM memory,
particularly useful for disaster recovery. With the virtual network switch, connect multiple virtual machines through a
single physical network connection. Provide a high level of software and security isolation between the VM Host and the
VMs, by placing them in different Integrity privilege levels. For flexibility, move a running Integrity VM, its guest OS, and
applications to a different VM Host, without an OS reboot or application restartwith Online VM Migration.
Electrically isolate your most critical workloads
Isolate workloads into separate hard partitions (nPartitions), that act as separate physical servers, each running its own
operating system and hosting its own applications. Electrically separate hard partitions from each other, so hard failures
are confined to the nPartition in which they occur. For reboots, and most hardware upgrades, require only the affected
nPartition(s) to be brought down. For resourcing flexibility, dynamically migrate processor core and memory usage
rights between nPartitions. Utilize hard partitioning to provide the highest degree of isolation within a server. Keep IT
processes running to support your businessthe key to a mission-critical converged infrastructure.
Virtualize with high performance and scalability
With HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), a soft partitioning technology within HP Virtual Server Operating Environment
(OE), add finer, core granularity to nPartitions, as well as the flexibility of dynamic resource migration. Run multiple
workloads within an nPartition or server. Isolate an operating system and its applications and resources within a virtual
partition. Assign processor core and memory resources to different vPars, and starting with vPars v6, share I/O
resources. Deploy this simple methodology for high performance, high scalability, and predictable resourcing. For
flexibility, dynamically move physical cores or instant-capacity (iCAP) usage rights for processor cores between vPars.
Scale on demandwith reserve capacityand pay as needed
With HP Instant Capacity (iCAP), defer hardware costs for compute resources until you actually need to add them,
simplifying capacity planning. Until you need them, you pay only a fraction of the cost. Initially purchase an
HP enterprise server with a specified amount of active processing capacity (of processors, cell blades, and memory), and
a specified amount of inactive processing capacity. Prior to activation of an inactive component, obtain additional
resource usage rights. And, most importantly, with the tight integration of HP Instant Capacity and HP-UX virtualization
and resource management solutions, temporarily use spare capacity during peak usage and move resources between
servers, accruing higher cost savings.

Real virtualization usage scenarios on HP Integrity servers

Consolidate databases
Consolidate databaseswith shared resources within one shared O/S instancevia HP-UX Containers (an Oracle
single instance production example)
Usage scenario
To consolidate a number of Oracle single instance databases within one server, for a production environment, requiring:
high performance, resource utilization, and availability.
Customer objectives

Database consolidation
High performance, resource utilization, and availability
Granular resource sharing
Increased access control among multiple databases
Application isolation
Lower total cost of ownership
HP solution components

HP-UX Containers
HP Integrity server
With HP-UX Containers, create an isolated execution and administration domain for each database, with separate
installation and management, and access to database software. Guarantee each container its own share of system CPU
and memory resources.
Deploy each Oracle single instance database and associated applications within a single container, creating a one-to-one
container-to-Oracle DB mapping. Enable database administrators to login to a container to install the DB instance and
perform administrative tasks. For high availability purposes, clone the entire container environment easily with a
container export/import capability that duplicates the container on other nodes in the Serviceguard cluster.
Assign processor resources in 2 ways. Assign processor shares to a container, so unused capacity can be used by other
containers on the system. If you assign dedicated processor cores to the container, unused capacity will not be shared,
but Oracle will only require you to purchase database licenses for the dedicated processor cores for the container, which
can yield substantial savings for some deployments.

Figure 1: With HP-UX Containers, provide protection around each running instance of Oracle, and the Oracle data files (inside the box).

Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers
Lowering software license costsvia improved resource sharing, and sharing of server-licensed- based system
management software
Reducing the number of OS environments to administer
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space

Improve the service levels to business with

Shared management of consolidated databases

Increase the IT flexibility and agility to respond to business changes by

Significantly reducing Oracle deployment time
More information

Reference Architecture: Consolidating Oracle Databases with Secure Resource Partitions in a Serviceguard Cluster
white paper

HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture for Oracle Database white paper
hp.com/go/containers
At http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-prm-learn-more.html#white papers, under
white papers

Consolidate databaseswith shared resources and multiple OS instancesvia HP Integrity Virtual Machines (an
Oracle single instance or Informix example)
Usage scenario
To consolidate single instance Oracle or Informix for development, testing, quality assurance, and production. With
virtual machines, instead of separate physical servers, optimize server utilization.
Customer objectives

Monolithic and distributed application development and testing

Qualification on multiple OS versions
Development and testing on multiple configurations
High level of server utilization
Fully independent administrative domains for each environment
Rapid deployment of new environments
HP solution components

HP Integrity Virtual Machines running HP-UX 11i v3

HP Integrity server
Benefits

Cheaperwith reduced number of physical servers

Fastersince ready to boot or ready to use
More information

Running Oracle OLTP Workloads in HP Integrity Virtual Machines on the new HP Integrity Servers
at: hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docs, under white papers

HP Integrity Virtual Machines Online Migration with IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 white paper
Consolidate databaseswith partitioned resources and multiple OS instancesvia HP-UX Virtual Partitions and
HP Instant Capacity on Superdome 2 (an Oracle single instance production example)
Usage scenario
To consolidate a number of Oracle single-instance databases within one server, for a production environment with high
performance and scalability. Set up a separate OS instance per database (either for tuning reasons, or to enable
different organizations to have different OS instances). For vPars resource adjustment, either migrate processor cores
between vPars, or enable/disable Instant (reserve) Capacity processor cores within vPars.
Customer objectives

Database consolidation
OS isolation
High performance
Large partitions
Optimal resource utilization
Adaptation to changing business demands

HP solution components

HP-UX Virtual Partitions

HP Instant Capacity
HP Integrity Superdome 2 server
HP Serviceguard
With HP-UX Virtual Partitions, you can have one OS instance per database, which can be separately tuned. Each vPar has
its own set of processor, memory, and I/O resources. Enable or disable HP Instant Capacity, processor and memory
resources based on changing demand.
Deploy each Oracle single instance database (and its associated applications) within a single vPar, creating a one-to-one
vPar-to-Oracle database mapping. Enable database administrators to login to the vPar to install the database instance,
and perform administrative tasks. For high availability purposes, back up the entire vPar environment with an
HP Serviceguard cluster.
Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space
More information

At: hp.com/go/vsera under white papers then Oracle:

Matrix OperatingVSE Reference Architecture for Oracle Application Server white paper
Matrix OperatingVSE Reference Architecture for Oracle DatabaseHigher Level Concepts white paper

hp.com/go/vPars
HP Instant Capacity for HP Integrity Superdome 2 Servers
Practices for Maintaining Compliance with iCAP on Superdome 2
hp.com/go/icap
Note:
You can also use vPars to consolidate Oracle RAC databases. To do so, use RAC across two servers with a vPar in each, or have multiple
RAC clusters across the same two servers but in different vPars. For more information about how to use vPars to consolidate Oracle
RAC databases, go to hp.com/go/Oracle.

Consolidate enterprise business environments

Consolidate enterprise business environmentswith partitioned resources and multiple OS instancesvia HP-UX
Virtual Partitions and HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) on Superdome 2 (an SAP 3 tier production example)
Usage scenario
To consolidate SAP 3 tier production on virtual partitions, instead of separate physical servers, to improve server
utilization.
Customer objectives

Monolithic and distributed application development and testing

Qualification on multiple OS versions
Production on multiple configurations
High performance
Rapid deployment of new environments
Optimal resource utilization
Adaptation to changing business demands
HP solution components

HP-UX Virtual Partitions

HP Instant Capacity
HP Integrity Superdome 2 server
HP Serviceguard
With HP-UX Virtual Partitions, allocate one OS instance per SAP (or database), with separate resources that can be
separately tuned. Assign each vPar its own set of processor, memory, and I/O resources. With HP Instant Capacity,
enable or disable processor and memory resources, based on changing demand. Deploy each SAP or database instance
(and its associated applications) within a single vPar, creating a one-to-one vPar-to-SAP or database instance mapping.
Enable IT administrators to login to the vPar to install the SAP or database instance and perform administrative tasks.
For high availability purposes, back up the entire vPar environment with an HP Serviceguard cluster.
Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers
Lowering software license costs
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space

Fasterready to boot or ready to use

More information

hp.com/go/vPars
Using SAP with HP Virtualization and Partitioning white paper
HP Instant Capacity for HP Integrity Superdome 2 Servers
Practices for Maintaining Compliance with iCAP on Superdome 2
hp.com/go/icap

Consolidate enterprise business environmentswith shared resources within one shared O/Svia HP-UX
Containers (an SAP production example)
Usage scenario
To consolidate a number of SAP environments and associated databases within one server, for a production
environment requiring high performance, availability, and security.
Customer objectives

Consolidate SAP enterprise business environments

Granular resource sharing
Databases deployed on the same server
Application isolation
High availability and security
Lower total cost of ownership
HP solution components

HP-UX Containers
HP Integrity server
Use a single SAP administrative domain for systems running multiple SAP instances.
With Process Resource Manager assign certain resource shares and priorities to each SAP application. Share resources
across the servers, despite the number applications. Increase server utilization, and enable rapid deployment.
With HP-UX Containers, create an isolated execution and administration domain for each database:

Enabling you to create multiple SAP administrative domains, one for each container
Reducing database license costs by isolating the databases to individual containers with dedicated CPUs
Supporting separate installation and management, and access to database software
Guaranteeing each container will have its own share of system CPU and memory resources
In this deployment model, deploy each SAP instance within a single HP-UX Container, creating a one-to-one
container-to-SAP instance mapping. Install each database in its own container with dedicated processor cores
corresponding to the terms of the database license. Have your database administrators login to the HP-UX Container to
install the SAP or database instance and perform administrative tasks. For high-availability purposes, easily clone the
entire HP-UX Container environment by using the HP-UX Container export/import capability to duplicate the container
on other nodes in the Serviceguard cluster.
You have two choices for processor core assignment with HP-UX Containers. By assigning core shares to the SAP
containers, use unused processor core capacity by other containers on the system. By assigning dedicated processor
cores to the HP-UX Container, unused capacity will not be shared, but database licenses will not be required for the
remaining processor core capacity on the system, which will be utilized by the SAP instances.
Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing number of physical servers
Lowering software license costs
Lowering support hardware and software costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space

Improve the service levels to business with

Shared management of consolidated databases

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 Increase the IT flexibility and agility to respond to business changes by

Reducing the time for application deployment
Reducing database deployment time significantly
More information

Best Practices for Deploying HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions (SRP) for SAP white paper
Consolidation of enterprise business environmentswith shared resources and multiple OS instancesvia
HP Integrity Virtual Machines (an SAP 2-tier development and test example)
Usage scenario
To consolidate SAP 2-tier development, testing, and quality assurance on virtual machines instead of separate physical
servers, so you can get the best server utilization.
Customer objectives

Monolithic and distributed application development and testing

Qualification on multiple OS versions
Development and testing on multiple configurations
Highest levels of server utilization
Rapid deployment of new environments
HP solution components

Integrity VM on HP-UX 11i v3

HP Integrity server
Figure 2: With Integrity VM, run different environments in their own OS instance, dynamically sharing and shifting resources depending
on ongoing workload requirements, particularly useful for test and development.

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Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers
Lowering software license costs
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space

FasterSince ready to boot or ready to use

More information

Using SAP with HP Virtualization and Partitioning

System Sizing Guidelines for Integrity Virtual Machines DeploymentHardware Consolidation with Integrity Virtual
Machines white paper

hp.com/go/IntegrityVM
Consolidate enterprise disaster recovery backup environments
Consolidate enterprise disaster recovery backup environmentswith shared resources and multiple O/S
instancesvia HP Integrity Virtual Machines (an example)
Usage scenario
To make your redundant disaster recovery servers virtual, not physical. That way, when not used for disaster recovery,
your servers resources can be used for other virtual machines and their workloads. In the case of disaster recovery,
degraded performance is OK. Whats most important is that the data is retained, even upon failure or disaster. And in
this case, the DR servers are not wasted, hot standby servers. Theyre running workloads all the time, for which
resources can then be automatically shifted if a disaster failover is required.
Customer objectives

Replace redundant physical systems at remote DR site

Cost-effective disaster recovery
Fewer duplicate physical servers
DR servers ready-to-boot; otherwise used for other purposes
HP solution components

HP Integrity Virtual Machines

HP Integrity server

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Figure 3: Integrity VM for consolidation of disaster recovery nodes

Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers at the Disaster Recovery site
Lowering software license costs
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space

Redundant virtual servers

DR servers ready-to-boot; otherwise used for development, test, evaluation, and so on.
More information

System Sizing Guidelines for Integrity Virtual Machines DeploymentHardware Consolidation with Integrity Virtual
Machines white paper

hp.com/go/IntegrityVM
Consolidate enterprise disaster recovery backup environmentswith shared resources within one shared O/S
instancevia HP-UX Containers (an example)
Usage scenario
To gain high availability for a set of workloads, and fully utilize the capacity of all the servers within the high availability
cluster. To also occasionally adjust the workload mix in order to adjust to changes in the workload demand.

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Customer objectives

Utilize capacity on all cluster serversnot idlestandby systems

Fast failover (no waiting for server power-up or OS boot)
Redundant physical systems at remote DR site
HP solution components

HP-UX Containers
HP Serviceguard
HP Integrity server
With HP-UX Containers, create an isolated execution and administration domain for each database, supporting separate
installation and management, and access database software. Guarantee each container its own share of system CPU and
memory resources.
In this deployment model, deploy each workload within a single HP-UX Container, creating a one-to-one
container-to-workload mapping. Create a Serviceguard package for each container. Create the full set of containers on
one sever in the cluster, and use the export/import feature to create clones (copies) of the HP-UX Containers to other
cluster servers. Use the Serviceguard cluster administrator to select which servers will serve as primary and failover
nodes for the HP-UX Container packages in the cluster.
Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers
Lowering software license costs
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space

Simplify Serviceguard environment with the container-as-the-package model

More information
hp.com/go/containers

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Consolidate enterprise disaster recovery backup environmentswith cost effective IT infrastructurevia

HP Instant Capacity on Superdome 2 (an example)
Usage scenario
To upgrade processor core compute capacity easily without having to reboot. For disaster recovery, high availability and
load balancing, share hardware and software usage rights across servers to avoid purchasing redundant hardware,
software licenses and services.
Customer objectives

Adapt to changing business demands without downtime

Provide cost-effective business continuity
Improve resource utilization
HP solution components

HP Instant Capacity on Superdome 2 running HP-UX 11i v3 (iCAP, GiCAP, or Serviceguard)

Figure 4: Server 2 is set up as a DR site for server 1; active cores in black, inactive iCAP cores in gray

Total database per-core licenses after failover = 20

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Figure 5: Upon disaster and failover of Server 1, enable inactive iCAP cores on Server 2 to handle the failed over workloads

Total database per-core licenses after failover = 20

Benefits

Employ an infrastructure that is virtualized, resilient, orchestrated, optimized and modular in nature
Reduce third-party licensing and hardware support costs
Implement and automate cost-effective Disaster Recovery Solution with no vendor involvement
More information

HP Instant Capacity for HP Integrity Superdome 2 Servers

Practices for Maintaining Compliance with iCAP on Superdome 2
hp.com/go/icap

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Consolidate legacy, enterprise servers

Consolidate legacy, enterprise serverswith shared resources within one shared OS instancevia HP 9000
Containers (an example of consolidating HP 9000 servers onto an Integrity server)
Usage scenario
To move a large, in-house, legacy, HP 9000 application, used in production, to a new Integrity system with minimal
effort, but in an acceptable fashion, despite the dependency on 3 old ISV libraries, and the loss of in-house expertise on
the application.
Customer objectives

Ability to run HP 9000 applications on Integrity systems

Transition HP 9000 applications within minimal effort
Deploy HP 9000 applications rapidly
Consolidate multiple HP 9000 servers on a single Integrity system
HP solution components

HP 9000 Containers
HP-UX Containers
HP ARIES
HP Integrity server
Benefits

Cheaper by
Running HP 9000 applications on Integrity systems with no porting or recompilation.
Transitioning HP 9000 applications with ease. Just image it and bring it over. No rediscovering complex application
dependency.

Regain hardware support by:

Eliminating out-of-support HP 9000 systems
Running HP 9000 applications on supported HP Integrity systems

Consolidate multiple HP 9000 applications on fewer Integrity systems using powerful HP virtualization technologies

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Figure 6: A simplified introduction to HP 9000 containers

Figure 7: HP 9000 containers-based transition; simplified transition from PA-RISC to integrity

More information

hp.com/go/overeasy
hp.com/go/containers
hp.com/go/aries

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Consolidate legacy enterprise serverswith shared resources and multiple OS instancesvia HP Integrity Virtual
Machines (an example of consolidating HP 9000 servers onto an Integrity server)
Usage scenario
To consolidate servers for replacement of legacy, end-of-life servers, and their legacy applications.
Customer objectives

Tiered application in a single box

Multi-OS supportHP-UX, OpenVMS
Secure, captive virtual console access to liberate your system administrators
HP solution components

HP Integrity Virtual Machines

HP Integrity server
HP ARIES translator
Optional, if workloads are not performance-sensitive
However, when coming from older servers, theres often a huge performance boost just moving to the newer
servers
Figure 8: High-level comparison of different virtualization solutions on the HP Integrity i2 blade (BL8x0c i2 servers) and
Superdome 2 servers

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Benefits

Lower TCO by:

Reducing the number of physical servers
Lowering software license costs
Lowering hardware and software support costs
Reducing power consumption
Reducing data center floor space
Reducing cooling needs

Lower power consumption

Less floor space
Deployment agility
Resource allocation flexibility
Cut hardware, software, and maintenance costs
More information

Migrating Virtual Partition (vPar) systems to Integrity Virtual Machines white paper
Consolidate multi-tiered applications within one server
Consolidate multi-tiered applicationwithin one serverwith HP VirtualSystem for Superdome 2/HP-UX
(an example)
Use case scenario:
To implement virtualization for a multi-tiered, mission-critical application within one server, with highly isolated
segmentation of the underlying: database, server, application server, development and test.
Customer objectives

Tiered application in a single box with various requirements for isolation, performance, and shared resourcing
Integrated, easy and fast-to-deploy solution including server, virtualization software, storage, and
integrated services

HP solution components

HP VirtualSystem for Superdome 2/HP-UX, including:

HP Superdome 2
HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Environment OE
HP 3PAR F400
HP integrated services

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Figure 9: High-level description of the four components of HP VirtualSystem for Superdome 2/HP-UX

Benefits

Instantly adjust to dynamic business demands

Proven highly-optimized preconfigured solution
Reduce configuration and deployment time
Scale to support virtualization of any workload
Fastest path to mission-critical virtualization
More information:
hp.com/enterprise/us/en/os/mission-critical-virtualsystem.html

Conclusion
With HP Integrity servers, based on HPs Converged Infrastructure strategy, attack IT sprawl with a standards-based,
modular, bladed architectures as well as common components and a common management environment across all
HP servers. Enjoy this set of servers that are modular, modern, and easier to manage than ever before.
These servers, based on the HP Converged Infrastructure, are ideal mission-critical platforms when you need to reduce
heterogeneous legacy sprawl in the data center, or migrate off or consolidate, older legacy servers. The servers
combination of processing power, I/O bandwidth, extreme reliability, virtualization, and shared modularity, when used
with other parts of HP Converged Infrastructure platforms, make them a cost-effective solution for the next generation
data center.
With HP-UX virtualization, reduce IT costs by consolidating your workloads onto fewer machines. Effectively use your
computing assets while reducing your TCO. Also, increase the flexibility of your computing environments, so you can
appropriately and automatically respond to ever-changing business requirements and ever-increasing demands. Lastly,
increase the uptime of your IT resources, through the integration of HP-UX Virtualization with HP Serviceguard. Get the
most out of your resources, and do not lose critical data required for your operations.
As illustrated in this white paper, HP Integrity virtualization technologies on the HP Integrity i2 servers play a key role in
high-end UNIX servers. Determine the virtualization requirements of your workloads, and then determine the best HP-UX
virtualization options for meeting those needs, utilizing common virtualization usage scenarios outlined in this paper.

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Appendix
High-level comparison of different virtualization solutions on the HP Integrity servers
nPartitions

Virtual Partitions

Integrity VM

HP-UX Containers

Number of OS
instances per system

Multiple

Multiple

Multiple

1 shared OS

Granularity

Blade

Core, LBA

1/20 of core,
shared I/O

Share, percent,
processor
sets (psets)

Isolation

Electrical

OS and Software

OS and Software

Software

For more information

To read more about:

HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX hp.com/go/hpuxvirtualization

HP Instant Capacity: hp.com/go/icap
HP-UX 11i: hp.com/go/hpux
HP Matrix OE for HP-UX: hp.com/go/matrixoe
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