• Includes coverage of HP's new Integrity Virtual Machines, Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity Advisor

• Plan, implement, and manage virtualization to drive maximum business value

• Understand HP's virtualization solutions for partitioning, utility pricing, high availability, and management for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers

• Manage your existing resources to drive unprecedented levels of utilization

Virtualization offers IT organizations unprecedented opportunities to enhance service quality, improve agility, and reduce cost by creating an automated balance in system resources. Now, there's a comprehensive guide to virtualization based on the industry's most flexible and complete solution: HP's Virtual Server Environment (VSE).

Two leading HP architects and customer consultants help you identify the best "sweet spot" VSE solution for your environment—and plan, implement, and manage it.

The HP Virtual Server Environment systematically introduces VSE technologies for partitioning, utility pricing, high availability, and management, as well as HP's powerful, unique goal-based approach to workload management. Whether you're a solution designer, architect, or engineer, you'll find realistic examples, deep insight, and practical tips, all with one goal: to help you maximize the business value of virtualization.

• Architect flexible, dynamic configurations that adapt instantly to business requirements

• Choose the right solutions from HP's partitioning continuum: nPars, vPars, HP Integrity Virtual Machines, and Secure Resource Partitions

• Use utility pricing solutions to deploy instant, temporary, or pay-per-use capacity wherever you need it

• Improve utilization and control your virtual environment with HP-UX Workload Manager, HP Serviceguard, HP Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity Advisor

• Integrate VSE technologies into heterogeneous HP-UX, Linux, and Windows environments on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers