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HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX

Learn about how HP Partitioning can help your organization improve RoIT, increase server flexibility, reduce risk, and increase server utilization
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March 2012 enhancements improve server efficiency and flexibility, while protecting your investment

HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX

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Increase server efficiency and flexibility 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 & 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
    • Investments by easily transitioning HP 9000 environments to Integrity servers via HP 9000 Containers

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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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Software virtualization with OS isolation and dynamic flexibility

 
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) and HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VM):
  • Reduce costs: through consolidation, and greater utilization of existing resources
  • Increase flexibility: use resources as needed
  • Rapid deployment of new environments

What’s new

Scale, utilize and flex your mission-critical Integrity i2 servers as needed—with HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1:
  • Reduce costs—with: greater virtualization scalability, more efficient resource utilization, and access to vast amounts of storage*
  • Improve I/O performance—meet high bandwidth needs with dedicated network devices
  • Increase flexibility—shared I/O, dynamic cores and workload transformation

                  *Also available with HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VM) v4.3 (via the January 2012 patches)

To meet ever-changing workload demands:
  • Flex workloads between physical and virtual servers—with Matrix OE for HP-UX 7.0, and Integrity VM 4.3 (January 2012 patches)
  • Instantly adjust Superdome 2 resources by dynamically flexing vPars v5 processor cores and instant capacity

Technology advantages

HP-UX Virtual Partitions:
  • High performance and scalability
  • Isolation of processor cores

Integrity VM:
  • Suspend/resume functionality— to temporarily put workloads “on the shelf”
  • Easily migrate VMs as high availability packages — with application monitoring within the VMs
  • Live VM Migration

vPars and Integrity VM:
  • High I/O bandwidth with direct I/O access to networking devices
  • Direct, fast, VM console access via: Virtual iLO Remote Console
  • Low-cost, shared NFS storage
  • Flexible networking with vLAN tagging at: guest, vswitch or host level
  • Flex workloads to meet requirements with transformation between vPars and VMs
  • Protect virtual servers as high availability clustering nodes
  • Ease flexibility and management with: global workload management, capacity planning, HP Instant Capacity, and other HP-UX system management tools

How it works

HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars): Dynamic partitioning,with core granularity and dynamic core migration, within a single nPartition or server. Host your own instance of the HP-UX 11i Operating Environment (OE), as well as its own resources, applications and users. Parse the physical resources of your HP Integrity server among different virtual partitions hosts.

HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM): Virtualization that provides dynamic, shared resourcing, based on demand and entitlement. Create multiple virtual servers or machines within a single HP Integrity server or nPartition—each with its own 'guest' operating system instance, applications and users.

Online VM Migration: Move a running VM, its guest OS, and its applications to a different server or nPartition without service interruption. Dynamically maintain (patch, update, or reconfigure) VM Hosts, and balance server workloads, without interrupting the virtual machines. Keep sServices remain active without no OS reboots or application restarts. Keep All I/O connections to storage and networks I/O connections active during migration, keeping the change transparent to applications and users.

These products are available as part of the HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Environment Operating Environment (VSE-OE) and the HP-UX 11i v3 Data Center Operating Environment (DC-OE).

At a Glance

    Product Current version Servers supported
    vPars v5 A.05.08 (plus firmware at least 2.51.xx)

    Superdome 2, Superdome, rx86x0,rx76x0

    Integrity VM v4.3 B.04.30.00 All Integrity servers
    vPars v6.0 B.06.00.00 Integrity i2 blades

    HP-UX vPars and
    Integrity VM v6.1

    		 B.06.10.00

    vPars v6.1: Integrity i2 blades,
    rx2800 i2, Superdome 2
    VM v6.1: all Integrity servers

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Partitions with electrical isolation and performance

HP nPartitions (nPars) :
  • Reduce costs: with high performance consolidation
  • Protect: through electrical & security isolation, software isolation and compliance

What’s new

With HP Integrity Superdome 2 servers:

  • HP nPartitions can now have: multiple partition specification files (parspecs)
    • Save, restore and switch between alternate nPar definitions (for different tasks or times)

Business benefits

  • Maximize server utilization
  • Isolate operating environments
  • Improve system availability
  • Consolidate enterprise-class servers
  • Rapidly deploy new environments
  • Improve cost of ownership

Technology advantages

  • Electrical hardware isolation for: maximum isolation and online serviceability
  • High performance/negligible overhead
  • 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

    • Current version: nPars: with Superdome 2 servers
    • Hardware platforms: Select HP Integrity servers (Superdome 2, Superdome, rx86x0, rx76x0)
    • Operating Systems: HP-UX 11i v3
    • Granularity: nPars: cell or blade
    • Compliance certification: Common Criteria CCOPP-OS protection profile

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