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

Chapter Overview

Many data centers are built with redundancy and failover mechanisms that can handle serious disaster situations. In most cases, HP Serviceguard has been configured to failover a workload to a separate system should a problem occur with the primary hardware or software. While redundant hardware configurations do provide robust computing environments, it is costly to maintain hardware that is grossly underutilized while waiting for a failover to occur. One of HP's solutions to this problem is the Temporary Instant Capacity program. Like the Instant Capacity program, Temporary Instant Capacity allows users to purchase a system without licensing all of the hardware at the time of the initial purchase. This provides a great deal of ...