Virtual machines, Virtual partitions, Workloads – HP INSIGHT DYNAMICS T8671-91017 User Manual

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Utilization
Provider

The

WBEM

services provider for real-time utilization data from

managed systems

.

VCEM

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager. A management tool for defining a server connection
profile for each server bay. This profile establishes the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses
for all Network Interface Controllers (NICs), the World Wide Names (WWNs) for all host bus
adapters (HBAs), and the SAN boot parameters. If the server blade in the server bay is replaced,
the configuration and connection profile stays constant.

virtual machine

A software entity provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or
Microsoft Hyper-V. This technology allows a single server or

nPartition

(with Integrity Virtual

Machines) to act as a

VM Host

for multiple individual virtual machines, each running its own

instance of an operating system (referred to as a guest OS). Virtual machines are managed
systems under Insight Dynamics.

virtual partition

A software partition of a server, or of a single

nPartition

, where each virtual partition can run

its own instance of an operating system. A virtual partition cannot span an nPartition boundary.

VM Host

A server running HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or Microsoft
Hyper-V that provides multiple

virtual machines

, each running its own instance of an operating

system.

vPars

An HP software product that provides

virtual partitions

.

vPars monitor

The program that manages the assignment of resources to

virtual partitions

in a

vPars

-enabled

system. To enable virtual partitions, the vPars monitor must be booted in place of a normal
HP-UX kernel. Each virtual partition running under the monitor then boots its own HP-UX
kernel.

WBEM

Web-Based Enterprise Management. A set of web-based information services standards
developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. A WBEM provider offers access to
a resource. WBEM clients send requests to providers to get information about and access to the
registered resources.

WMI

Windows Management Instrumentation. Insight Dynamics uses WMI for data collection from
managed systems running Microsoft Windows. WMI queries and responses are converted to
WBEM through the WMI Mapper.

workload

The collection of processes in a stand-alone server,

nPartition compartment

,

virtual partition

compartment, or

virtual machine

compartment. HP Insight Global Workload Manager software

for Integrity (gWLM) extends this concept to include

processor set (PSET)

compartments and

Fair-Share Scheduler (FSS) group

compartments. gWLM enables you to monitor and manage

workloads by automatically adjusting the resource allocations of compartments based on

policies

.

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