HP speeds adoption of virtualisation
ConvergenceAsia Staff
18/06/2007

HP has announced new virtualisation software, including a tool for planning Sun migrations, and a partner programme that are designed to help enterprises speed adoption of virtualisation.

Virtualisation is a key enabler of the HP Adaptive Infrastructure, which delivers the next-generation data centre to optimise business outcomes.

Said Aman Dokania, Director Infrastructure Software, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia-Pacific & Japan, "HP's holistic approach ensures that our customers can deploy and manage their environments with reduced risk to gain the full benefits of virtualisation."

The software – enhancements to the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integrity servers – optimises server resource utilisation by providing a pool of virtual servers that can grow or shrink based on business needs.

To assist customers in planning migrations and consolidations to HP Integrity servers, HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor can import data collected from Sun servers by HP Performance Agent. The new trending capabilities for this intuitive tool let customers simulate future usage patterns when planning consolidations for HP-UX, Windows and Linux.

HP also announced a new release of HP Serviceguard for Linux that brings high availability to Linux-based applications running in virtual machines for both VMware technology on HP ProLiant servers and HP Integrity Virtual Machines on HP Integrity servers.

Additionally, with the new HP Partner Virtualization Program independent software vendors (ISVs) can build and verify applications in a secure, virtualised environment, while choosing from a broad selection of virtualisation technologies, platforms and guest operating systems.

Through online access to HP Partner Technology Access Centers, ISVs can rapidly test, verify and tune applications running on virtual machines. They can debug, port, verify and support applications running on a broad range of operating system deployments, such as HP-UX 11i, Microsoft Windows and Linux (Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

ISVs can also publish their applications in an online catalogue to enable customers to quickly and easily determine availability of tested solutions.

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