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HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX

Learn how HP Virtualization can help your organization improve RoIT, increase server utilization and flexibility, and reduce risk.
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HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX

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Increase server efficiency with consolidation tuned for: high availability, flexibility and performance. Utilize HP's broad set of virtualization technologies that range from electrical and dynamic partitions to virtual machines and containers. These technologies create virtual environments with either separate OS instances or isolated workloads and can be combined together.

The HP-UX virtualization technologies integrate with:

HP nPartitions (nPars)

  • Reduce costs: with high performance consolidation
  • Protect: through electrical and security isolation, software isolation and compliance

HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) & HP Integrity VM

  • Reduce costs: through increased server utilization
  • Increase flexibility: with dynamic migration of resources and workloads
  • Rapid deployment of new environments

HP-UX Containers

  • Reduce costs with: high performance consolidation within one shared OS instance (reducing ISV licensing)
  • Simplify management: with one shared operating system
  • Protect:
    • Environments by improving security and compliance
    • Protect investments by easily transitioning HP 9000 environments to Integrity servers via HP 9000 Containers

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Do you need to increase your server utilization and flexibility to get the most out of your existing servers?

To reduce costs and optimize resources, deploy HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6, a converged virtualization solution that consolidates multiple workloads onto a single HP Integrity server or hard partition (nPartition).

What’s New
  • Increase availability of virtualized workloads by reconfiguring vPars v6.2 memory dynamically and doubling the storage access paths per VM
  • Reduce costs by enabling v6 vPars and VMs to coexist on the same server (or nPartition)
  • Flex and share I/O with new Emulex Fibre Channel card support for virtualization and N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
Features

Reduce costs, and improve availability, performance, scalability, and flexibility, with the consolidation and enhanced resource utilization provided by virtualizing servers.

  • Isolate workloads with unique operating systems, applications, resources and users, and provide high availability support with HP Serviceguard
  • Eliminate the need for planned downtime for server upgrades and maintenance since online VM mobility of VM workloads moves a workload to a completely different system without bringing the system or VM down
  • For maximum workload performance and scalability in a virtualized environment, utilize virtual partitions with dedicated processor core and memory, that can be dynamically migrated for flexibility
  • For maximum server utilization and flexibility, share and dynamically optimize all available resources (cores, memory and I/O, by simultaneously executing multiple virtual servers with Integrity Virtual Machines (VM)
  • Meet varying demands with easy transformation of workloads between vPars and Integrity VMs
  • Optimize and flex resources with powerful and easy-to-use infrastructure management, provided by the HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure and HP Insight Software

Technical specifications

Product Name Current version Operating Systems Servers Supported Notes
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6 B.06.20.00
HP-UX 11i v3
All Integrity/HP-UX servers
HP-UX vPars v5 A.05.08
HP-UX 11i v3, HP-UX 11i v2
Superdome 2 Firmware version: at least 2.51.xx
HP Integrity VM v4 B.04.30.00
HP-UX 11i v3
All Integrity/HP-UX servers


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Consolidate multiple workloads within one HP-UX instance

HP-UX Containers
  • Reduce costs:
    • High performance consolidation within one OS instance
    • Lower ISV licensing
  • Simplify: Decrease OS images to manage
  • Protect: Improve security and compliance

What’s new

HP-UX Containers 3.1 simplifies container manageability:
  • Easily update HP-UX in a container environment
  • Replicate containers for faster set up of new containers
HP-UX Containers 3.0 increases isolation and control:
  • New system containers
    • Consolidate multiple private environments within an HP-UX instance
    • Gain control with per-container administrator domains
  • Force-to-wire capability:
    • Enhance compliance: send networking to wire for required external monitoring and auditing

Business benefits

  • Reduced cost:
    • Lower hardware requirements, software licenses, management and support costs
    • Maximized server utilization
    • Consolidation of enterprise server workloads
    • Greater efficiency with faster deployment of new workloads
  • Increased flexibility of resources
  • Increased security
    • Isolation of workload environments

Technology advantages

  • Shared O/S instance
  • Flexibility of 3 types of containers:
    1. Workload containers: Application stacking with simplified management, and highly granular security properties
    2. System containers: Consolidate with unique private environments, for easy application deployment with out-of-box implementation
    3. HP 9000 Containers: Easily transition HP 9000 environments to HP Integrity servers
  • Integrated with industry-leading HP Serviceguard high availability clustering to manage container load balancing and failover

How it works

HP-UX Containers utilizes a shared OS virtualization model to allow a single instance of the HP-UX operating system to host multiple application workloads in individual operating environments, efficiently utilizing shared server resources (CPU, memory and network access). Containers are portable and can be migrated or cloned across servers for high availability and load balancing purposes.

Each container can have: private file system view, network IP interfaces; inter-process communication (IPC) and process view, login environment, CPU and memory resource entitlements, startup and shutdown capabilities.

Host/domain name, systems services, file system namespace, and network/NFS configuration can be private to the container (for greater isolation), or can be shared with the system (for simplified management and administration).

At a Glance

  • Current version: HP-UX Containers: A.03.01; (see HP 9000 Containers for separate version)
  • Hardware platforms and Operating System: All Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i v3
  • Resource allocation: Processor core (dedicated or share-based), memory (dedicated or share-based)
  • Software License: Included with HP-UX 11i v3 Base Operating Environment (via HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions and HP 9000 Containers)
  • Support: Included with HP-UX 11i v3 support

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Partitions with electrical isolation and performance

HP nPartitions (nPars) :
  • Reduce costs with high performance consolidation
  • Maximize high availability by restricting hardware failures to a segment of a server
  • Protect workloads through electrical, software, and security isolation and compliance

What’s new

Increase availability, scalability and manageability of the new Integrity server blades (BL870c i4 and BL890c i4) - with new hard partitions (nPartitions)
  • For electrical workload isolation with flexibility:
    • Increased availability with electrically isolated hard partitions
    • Enhanced scalability to scale nPars up and down in minutes
    • Simple management with easy to use graphical user interface
» nPartitions for HP Integrity BL870c i4 and BL890c i4 server blades Technical White Paper (PDF 2.0 MB)

Technology advantages

  • Electrical hardware isolation for: maximum isolation and and firmware upgrades
  • Online serviceability of one Superdome 2 nPartition (while others continue to run)
  • Native performance
  • High availability through Integration with HP Serviceguard Solutions
  • Ease of management with HP Matrix Operating Environment and other HP-UX system management tools

How it works

HP nPartitions (nPars) is hard partition technology, delivered as part of select HP Integrity servers, that enables you to configure a single server complex as one large server or as multiple smaller servers.

Each nPartition:
  • Has one or more cells (containing processors and memory) that are assigned to the partition for its exclusive use
  • Is assigned any I/O chassis that is attached to a cell belonging to that partition
  • Hosts its own: operating system instance, applications and users

At a Glance

  • Operating Systems: HP-UX 11i v3
  • Hardware platforms: Select HP Integrity servers (Superdome 2, Superdome, rx86x0, rx76x0); and Integrity server blades BL870c i4 and BL890c i4
  • Granularity: cell or blade
  • Compliance certification (Superdome 2 nPars): Common Criteria CCOPP-OS protection profile

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White papers
nPartitions for BL870c i4 and BL890c i4 servers: Superdome 2 nPartitions:
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