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 March 2009: Virtualization helps your organization pool and share IT resources in a way that reduces costs, makes your IT infrastructures more flexible and helps you respond quickly to changing business requirements. One of the keys to a successful virtualization strategy is a modular infrastructure, and an integrated management platform for both physical and virtual resources, one that can tell you where to optimally place those resources.
HP is a virtualization leader, consider the facts.
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Fact 1: HP leads with first-to-market virtualization innovations. |
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Industry analyst firm Illuminata says, “In recent years, both IBM and Sun Microsystems have aggressively developed and marketed virtualization in one form or another. But it’s actually Hewlett-Packard that has been virtualizing Unix servers the longest, and that has the most diverse experience with deploying it in the field.”
Source Illuminata Research Note: HP's VSE Shows the Practical Side of Server Virtualization
HP Industry-leading innovations:
- Automated, goal-based workload management for UNIX (2000)
- Electrically isolated hard partitions (nPars) and soft partitions (vPars) (2001)
- HP Virtual Server Environment – Integrated partitioning, high availability, utility pricing and automated workload management (2003)
- HP Integrity Capacity Advisor- Automated capacity planning for virtualized environments (2005)
- HP Virtual Connect (2006) and HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (2007)
- HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 (2008) (first interconnect that flexibly allocates the bandwidth of a 10 Gb Ethernet network port across four NIC connections)
- HP Insight Dynamics – VSE for ProLiant- advanced infrastructure management with integrated real-time capacity planning (2008)
- HP Insight Orchestration for automated infrastructure design and provisioning (2009) and Insight Recovery for cost-effective, push button disaster recovery for physical and virtual resources (2009)
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Fact 2: HP is a global leader virtualization solutions based on VMware. |
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- HP has more server models certified for VMware ESX 3.5 than any other vendor.1
- HP has the most certified storage systems on any VMware partner.
- HP has more VMware certified professionals (VCPs) than anyone except VMware
- HP is the first VMware authorized training center to train more than 10,000 students on VMware certification curriculum
- HP’s EDS manages over 30,000 virtual servers for more than 100 clients
- HP’s EDS is an official VMware global systems integrator
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Fact 3: HP Insight software complements VMware by offering infrastructure management from one environment, from top to bottom, with in-depth knowledge about the hardware and power, precise control, and ongoing optimization for physical and virtual. |
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For example:
- HP Insight software works in conjunction with vCenter to manage both physical and virtual in the same way, including design, auto-provisioning, ongoing optimization for capacity and power, advanced visualization, and recovery.
- Not all customers want to give vCenter access to all server administrators – HP Insight software provides server administrators virtual machine (VM) administration capabilities in a controlled fashion.
- Customers are exploring adding Microsoft® Hyper-V to their environment and are looking for tools that manage heterogeneous virtual environments.
- While vCenter cannot deliver the flexibility of virtualization for physical environments, HP Insight software can – through easy workload movement of physical blade workloads or virtual-to-ProLiant (V2P) and physical-to-ProLiant (P2P) server migration capabilities.
- HP Insight software offers advanced control of power – not only reducing, but also reclaiming power with HP’s dynamic power capping capabilities.
- HP Insight software offers increased high availability by integrating prefailure alerts with vCenter to evacuate VMs before failure.
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Fact 5: HP servers have demonstrated industry leading performance on the VMmark3 benchmark that measures the performance of systems running VMware. |
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The HP ProLiant DL585 G5 delivers the highest performing server on the VMmark for 16 cores:
| Submitter |
System Description |
VMmark Version & Score |
Processors |
Published Date |
| HP |
HP ProLiant DL585G5 VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update 3 |
VMmark v1.1 20.43@14 tiles View Disclosure |
4 sockets
16 total cores
16 total threads |
01/27/09 |
| Dell |
Dell PowerEdge R905 VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update 3 |
VMmark v1.1 20.35@14 tiles View Disclosure |
4 sockets
16 total cores
16 total threads |
11/12/08 |
| IBM |
IBM Bladecenter LS42 VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update 3 |
VMmark v1.1 19.17@14 tiles View Disclosure |
4 sockets
16 total cores
16 total threads |
01/13/09 |
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Best 16 core results for each vendor: Test results as of 03-6-09. For more details, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html
The HP ProLiant DL385 G5 delivers the highest performing server on the VMmark for 8 cores:
| Submitter |
System Description |
VMmark Version & Score |
Processors |
Published Date |
| HP |
HP ProLiant385G5p VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update 3 |
VMmark v1.1 11.28@8 tiles View Disclosure |
2 sockets
8 total cores
8 total threads |
12/30/08 |
| Dell |
Dell PowerEdge R805 VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update 3 |
VMmark v1.1 11.22@8 tiles View Disclosure |
2 sockets
8 total cores
8 total threads |
11/12/08 |
| IBM |
IBM System x3650 VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update 1 |
VMmark v1.1 8.63@6 tiles
View Disclosure |
2 sockets
8 total cores
8 total threads |
09/02/08 |
Best 8core results for each vendor: Test results as of 03-6-09. For more details, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html
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Fact 6: HP sees continued strong momentum for virtualization adoption on HP Integrity servers: |
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- Nearly 80% of all soft partitioning units4 ship with the complete VSE suite
- Nearly 50% of all HP-UX 11i v3 shipments ship with the complete VSE suite
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1 See: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_systems_guide.pdf
2 IDC WW Q308 Server Virtualization Tracker, January 2009
3 What VMmark measures
The VMmark benchmark is intended to measure the performance of virtualized servers on a system under test (SUT) so that customers can compare the capabilities of different platforms for virtualization. VMmark represents the performance of virtual machines within a server running VMware ESX and a set combination of operating systems and specially tuned applications reflecting a typical datacenter environment. VMmark uses a collection of ‘sub-tests’ derived from commonly used load-generation tools as well as from benchmarks developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®). VMmark is an open standards effort that is agnostic toward hardware platforms and different virtualization software systems. VMmark uses workloads that represent common applications in datacenters. It is important to note that VMmark is designed to benchmark the performance of the virtualization software and the hardware, and is not designed as a benchmark of any other software component.
VMware® VMmark™ is a product of VMware, Inc. VMmark utilizes SPECjbb2005® and SPECweb2005®, which are available from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
4 Soft partitioning units are defined as standalone vPar units, Integrity VM units as well as vPars or Integrity VMs shipped bundled with VSE suite, VSE OE, or DC OE.
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