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

Chapter Overview

Planning for and purchasing new hardware is an arduous task. There is often a balance between over-provisioning current computing requirements based on expected growth and buying excess capacity that is under utilized. This balancing act is further complicated by the rapidly changing demands on the datacenter. New applications are regularly being added, and often new hardware is required in a short timeframe. HP's response to this problem is Instant Capacity.

HP's Instant Capacity solution allows a server to be purchased without initially paying the full price of the system. Using Instant Capacity, a subset of the hardware components are initially inactive. When the hardware is required, a license is purchased for the components ...