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The VMware virtualization solution with HP - Enabling end-to-end virtualization

The HP virtualization solution with VMware includes industry-leading server virtualization software fromVMware and HP infrastructure and tools for unified management of the virtual environment. These software components run on HP ProLiant servers, the top-selling industry-standard server brand.A unique HP advantage is the server and storage management portfolio, known as HP Essentials Management Software. This integrated management software portfolio allows you to monitor, deploy and control your HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers and HP StorageWorks storage from almost anywhere.

And to bring it all together, the HP Services organization and HP channel partners help you through the process of evaluating your needs, planning your solution, and deploying and operating your virtualized environment. With HP, you gain an end-to-end, tightly integrated virtualization solution that incorporates everything you need—hardware, software and services, including planning, deployment and management. HP delivers all the resources to put virtualization to work for your critical IT initiatives, including server consolidation, virtual desktop infrastructure, disaster recovery, and development and test.

Whether you have 10 servers, 100 servers or 1,000 servers, HP virtualization solutions with HP StorageWorks, HP Services and VMware can deliver savings, simplification and scalability across your environment.

Resources

Knowledge Centers

Webcasts
Watch our webinar on Leveraging Virtualization for Disaster Recovery

  • Which problems virtualization can solve
  • How customers are using virtualization

Demos

  • VDI: Effective Virtual Desktop Deployment and Management Strategies from VMware and HP
  • HP and VMware Demo

Watch our latest webinar, Managing Virtual Environments with the HP and VMware Operations Pack
Ultimate Architecture Flexibility with HP BladeSystem and VMware Infrastructure
VDI: Effective Virtual Desktop Deployment and Management Strategies from VMware and HP
webinar: Discover the Hidden Potential in Your Servers with VMware/HP Capacity Planner

HP and VMware Demo

Whitepapers

Compatibility Guides

Guides listing the standard operating systems and server platforms VMware tests against.

HP Sessions at VMWORLD 2007

Integrated Management Solutions

VMware partners with HP to deliver complete enterprise management solutions to meet the physical and virtual management needs of our customers. The table below lists currently available products and solutions and highlights their benefits.
Product Management Capability Works with Customer Benefits

HP Operations Orchestration v7.0

 Service Delivery

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x,  ESX & ESXi v3.5
  • Automation of common virtual and physical tasks; integration with existing change mgmt processes and applications.

HP Server Automation v7.0

 Service Delivery

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5
  • Solution used for server-based VMs and application provisioning and patching

HP Client Automation v5.1

 Change & Configuration

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5
  • Provisioning and patching of VMs and physical clients using single application and UI; integration with existing change mgmt apps.

HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping  v2.51

 Change & Configuration

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5
**Supports running on VI3
  • Discovery and inventory of VI3 assets to populate UCMDB

HP Universal CMDB v7.0 & v7.5

 Change & Configuration

ESX v2.5.x, ESX v3.0.x, ESX & ESXi v3.5
  • Track and report changes in VI3 environment
  • Store and track VI3 CIs to represent apps running on VI3 in Business Service Views
SiteScope v9.x Operations SDK v2.0
  • Monitoring and management of VI3 and apps using common UI.
HP Operations Performance Agent v4.7 Operations COS-based agent
  • OS performance root cause analysis
HP Operations SPI for VMware from nworks v2.5 Operations SDK v2.0
  • Monitoring and management of VI3 in HP Ops.
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