The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Chapter Overview

HP's Virtual Server Environment have one thing in common. They require a distinct operating system to be configured and maintained for every partition. Regardless of whether nPartitions, virtual partitions, or virtual machines are being employed, the technology requires a separate operating system. While this is certainly acceptable and often desired to ensure that applications retain a high level of isolation, it is not always necessary. In some situations it is perfectly acceptable for multiple applications to coexist within the same operating system. When users stack multiple applications in a single operating system, the first question they typically ask is, “How do I ensure that one application won't starve the others during ...