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Virtualization with blades

charlie_bulosan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:40:41 GMT

Hi All,

Is it possible to combine Integrity Blades to form a bigger system using VSE/Integrity VM?

Could they point me to a website or provide document links which this is mentioned?

Many Thanks,
Charlie

Re: Virtualization with blades

Pete Randall — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:54:38 GMT

Try this, Charlie:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/9984/Consolidation2.3.pdf

Pete

Re: Virtualization with blades

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:11:05 GMT

Shalom Charlie,

With enough memory on the blade you can consolidate several older systems on one plade using Integrity virtual machine technology.

How many depends on how much memory and application memroy use is needed per guest OS.

SEP

Re: Virtualization with blades

charlie_bulosan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:40:20 GMT

Hi Pete & SEP,

I'm thinking a different method which is - for example, I have a blade enclosure c7000 which could accommodate 8 x BL860c Integrity blades. Initially I will buy 2 x BL860c for my current requirement, and if I need more processor/memory requirement, I could buy 1 or 2 more. If I need more I/Os, I could buy a blade expansion I/Os.

What you are saying is use 1 physical big machine such as a Rx8400 or Superdome, and then create VMs inside to accommodate the smaller servers.

Why I prefer blades is because it is cheaper to manage (lower power and cooling requirement, easier deployment, less wires, etc.).

Thanks,
Charlie

Re: Virtualization with blades

Pete Randall — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:10:08 GMT

No Charlie, that is not what I was trying to say.

I was hoping that the document I referenced would provide you with the information you requested - that you can combine smaller servers into one, larger, virtual server. Sorry, I couldn't find a document that spells it out simply enough.

Pete

Re: Virtualization with blades

charlie_bulosan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:22:51 GMT

Hi Both,

I have found the HP Cluster Platforms. But this is not virtualization. See links below. http://h20311.www2.hp.com/HPC/cache/276446-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

http://h20311.www2.hp.com/HPC/cache/276446-0-0-0-121.html

Many thanks.

Charlie

Re: Virtualization with blades

Geoff Wild — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:55:06 GMT

No - that is not possible - you can not combine blades. They are not like cell based systems...

All you can do is "split" a blade into multiple virtual servers using Integrity Virtual Machines.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Virtualization with blades

charlie_bulosan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:35:34 GMT

Many thanks Geoff. I now know that this is not possible.

Cheers,
Charlie

Re: Virtualization with blades

Torsten. — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:07:48 GMT

I would say "not yet" - we will see what the future brings ...

But there is the new blade BL870c - more resources to use in a virtual environment, see

http://docs.hp.com/en/hw.html#HP%20Integrity%20BL870c%20Server%20Blade

Re: Virtualization with blades

charlie_bulosan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:00:42 GMT

Thanks for your input Torsten. I have already read the specs almost all the blades technology of HP.

Cheers,
Charlie