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.
HP and VMware Solutions
Enable IT consolidation
The HP virtualization solution with VMware enables your organization to consolidate server resources to improve utilization, reduce datacenter floor space requirements, cut power and cooling costs, and simplify management. When you virtualize resources with HP ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks products and VMware software, you can easily migrate from an under-utilized, over-provisioned physical environment to a virtual environment with fewer, more reliable systems. With HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack, you can speed the migration of these environments to a virtualized environment.
Create a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment
HP and VMware can help you create a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment that consolidates many clients systems onto a single server. You can then centrally host and manage your desktop environment from within your datacenter. Desktop virtualization gives you a cost-efficient alternative to physical desktops by enabling increased resource utilization and enhanced security. HP VDI provides effective manageability, efficiency and reliability through the use of HP ProLiant servers, HP thin clients, and HP Remote Graphics Software (HP’sbhigh performance remote protocol) with VMware’s virtualization software.
Enhance Disaster Recovery/ High Availability
Virtualization can help you maintain the availability of critical applications, reduce the risk of data loss and business interruption, and recover more quickly from disruptive events. HP ProLiant servers, HP StorageWorks products and VMware software deliver system reliability along with the ability to move, duplicate and restore critical information with little or no disruption to your business. HP replication software including HP Continuous Access, Business Copy and Storage Mirroring Software works together with VMware DRS and VMware HA software. Together, HP and VMware provide a level of automation and high availability solutions for enhanced Business Continuity that deliver on your Recovery Point, and Recovery Time Objectives.
Virtualizing your server and storage infrastructure overcomes what has been one of most significant inhibitors to deploying effective disaster recovery and high availability solutions, namely cost. Virtualization can help you increase infrastructure utilization, application uptime and service levels, while at the same time lowering operational cost and reducing management complexity. Virtualization also makes it easier to manage changing demands in application workloads by creating virtual machines and application instances that can be automatically migrated across virtual machines.
Bring virtualization to Development and Test environments
Using VMware’s Lab Manager product, this HP andVMware solution can assist with the automation of test and development processes. A single physical server can host dozens of virtualized development environments. This allows you to reduce the number of physical servers that are needed in order to test and qualify new software development projects. Lab Manager can also reduce project schedules and resource costs by developing a reusable library of virtual resources.
Virtualize your MS Exchange environment
Historically, some IT groups have been reluctant to virtualize applications such as Microsoft®’s Exchange Server 2003 (Exchange 2003). The performance demands Exchange 2003 placed on the server’s hardware left little processor headroom for additional server consolidation. A large Exchange mailbox server could fully utilize a four-processor server. However, with the introduction of dual-core and quad-core processors, server hardware can now scale significantly higher. Furthermore, architectural changes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 have provided performance improvements that also reduce the performance cost of virtualization. With the recently announced HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server, which uses quad-core processors, the number of processor cores has increased to 16 CPU cores and support for up to 128GB of system memory. For more information on the ProLiant DL580 G5 server, go to
