The Real Story about Integrated Hypervisors

The majority of HP ProLiant servers including every HP BladeSystem c-Class blade servers shipping today include support for an internal USB flash drive key which is ideal for an integrated hypervisor.³    The forethought to design the USB key on the HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem internals provides customers with a built-in means for an unobstructed implementation of an integrated hypervisor with security capabilities. Compare this approach to the Dell Poweredge 1955 blade server that has the USB on the outside of the server.⁴  Reports indicate that the IBM x3950 did not have an internal USB port until the upcoming IBM x3950 M2 which is expected to start shipping only later in the year.⁵

The installed base for HP systems with internal USB key is over 3.5 million systems.

HP ProLiant and Bladesystem reliability is a hallmark of the HP solution that customers rely on.   As such HP will ensure a quality integrated hypervisor solution that delivers on the promise of pervasive virtualization on standards, not just marketing hyperpole.

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While other vendors offer multiple management tools to manage your infrastructure, HP provides unified infrastructure management for controlling virtualized and physical environments from a single console, the HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). 

HP Virtual Server Environment for Integrity Servers, HP ProLiant Essentials, and HP Insight Control software all plug into HP SIM and constitute the industry’s first ⁸ integrated software family for planning, managing and automating virtual servers.⁹  What’s more, our HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays and other storage products can also be managed through plug-ins to SIM, making it a true one-stop shop (or “single pane of glass tool”) for managing the entire virtualized environment.

Industry analyst firm Illuminata writes, "Tools such as HP's SIM ....show that it is possible to bring considerable consistency to managing a varied set of virtualization approaches and workload management techniques on a single system; managed environments need not be limited to a single operating system, architecture, or style of workload management.  It need not be all Microsoft, all VMware, or even all HP. Indeed, one of the major strengths of SIM's modular and extensible approach is that it aids integration of what is inevitable a somewhat disparate set of capabilities provided both from within HP and without."

Source:   Illuminata Research Note: Virtualization: Management Ascendant

Bottom line:  As market share leader in x86 servers¹⁰, HP works closely with our partners to deliver HP ProLiant and BladeSystem technology that allows our customers to accelerate their business growth while minimizing costs and risks. HP remains committed to offering the broadest choice of platforms based on industry standard x86 architectures to address the wide range of customer server requirements. We support VMware innovation and value our partnership.  No hype HP is a virtualization leader with a comprehensive portfolio of virtualization solutions.

To learn more about HP and virtualization see:  www.hp.com/go/virtualization