VSE Management 4.0: Summary

• HP Virtualization Manager.  Visualization software that allows you to see the systems in your VSE at various levels of detail. Virtualization Manager gives you the ability to inventory the VSE, and provides a central point from which to configure your server resources for optimum utilization.

• HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM).  A multi-system, multi-OS workload manager that serves as an intelligent policy engine in the VSE. It simplifies the deployment of automated workload management policies across multiple HP-UX 11i servers and provides centralized monitoring and reporting and improved server utilization to help you meet your service-level objectives.

• HP Capacity Advisor.  Capacity analysis and planning software that allows you to optimize the workloads across your VSE for the highest utilization of server resources. Capacity Advisor provides scenario analysis to help optimize your current server resources and plan for future workload expansion and server consolidation.

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager). The graphical user interface to manage HP Integrity Virtual Machines resources. You can use VM Manager to create, monitor, and evaluate Integrity VM virtual machines, and to monitor and evaluate data and resources at the level of the VM Host. VM Manager enables you to visualize resources assigned to the VM Host or to a specific virtual machine or virtual switch. For example, VM Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network and storage devices so that you can view I/O data, including resource utilization information.

• HP Application Discovery. Software that finds running and installed applications within your network. With Application Discovery, you can browse application data by server location, by type, and by state. Data found by Application Discovery can be seen and used in Virtualization Manager to add applications to workloads.

• HP Instant Capacity Manager. A web-based interface that can be used to monitor your Instant Capacity (iCAP) environment. There are several pages available in iCAP Manager, including a home page to provide an overview of the Instant Capacity resources available, a Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) group manager page to provide more insight into the group managers, and detail pages for GiCAP groups and iCAP complexes and hosts.

• WBEM providers and other VSE agents.  Software that is installed on managed systems. One of these agents is the Utilization Provider that provides the real-time utilization metrics displayed by Virtualization Manager and collected by Capacity Advisor.

Supported Migration Types

• Physical-to-ProLiant (P2P) — Migrates a physical machine to a ProLiant server

• Physical-to-virtual (P2V) — Migrates a physical machine to a virtual machine within a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMware virtual machine host

• Virtual-to-ProLiant (V2P) — Migrates a virtual machine guest within a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMware virtual machine host to a ProLiant server

• Virtual-to-virtual (V2V) — Migrates a virtual machine guest between different virtualization layers, including Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, and VMware GSX Server

• HP Insight Control Environment (ICE) — includes HP Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM) and Insight Power Manager, and is required for licensing HP iLO Power Management Pack. VMM provides tracking, monitoring, and control capabilities for VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server (MSVS) virtual machines within HP SIM version 5.2 or later. To view these virtual machines under Virtualization Manager, the virtual machine hosts must be properly configured and licensed within VMM.

• HP Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO2) — allows collection of power information in Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor

• HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) — required for managing logical servers on server blades. VCEM simplifies the management of multiple HP BladeSystem enclosures that use Virtual Connect to control Local Area Network (LAN) and Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity, helping organizations increase productivity, respond more quickly to business demands, and significantly reduce operating costs. This tool provides a single console to manage network infrastructure connections, a central resource port for LAN and SAN address administration, and grouping capabilities that enable rapid server deployment and movement.