HP Integrity Virtual Machines

[Duncan Edmonstone]

For all of you out there with IA64 servers, if you haven't seen it already, take a look at the Integrity Virtual Machines software now available for trial from here:

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T2801AA

I'd best sum up the product as 'VMware for HP-UX', but for a detailed intro for the product look here:

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/Intro_VM_WP_12_Sept%2005.pdf

Full docs are here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/hplex.html#HP%20Integrity%20VM

If someone has already posted about this, sorry!

Duncan

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Duncan,

Yes - we are just starting our eval on this product. Just got an rx4640 in upon which to test.
We are looking at targeting this product into our Development environment. We see a possibility of saving a good deal of $ by "stacking" these Dev systems onto single systems instead of "wasting" CPU cycles by all Apps having their own boxes.
I'll try to keep you all up to date as testing progresses.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Alzhy]

I sure hope HP is not late in this game. vPars while really a good way to exact more out of your HP-UX server - does not compare to vMware and vMotion. On the Linux space - I heard the Xen or Zen virtual environment is becoming a stable piece of software.

vMare is making Linux, Windows and Solaris really scale on x86 and x86-64 commodity environments.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Nelson,

I think the key word in your post was 'commodity'.

That's certainly the space where windows, linux and increasingly solaris want to play.

In my opinion they're welcome to it. Big iron has gone out of fashion before, but it never really goes away, and that's where HPUX plays best.

Where I think Integrity VMs will get traction in the HPUX market is around test/dev environments (as pointed out by Jeff) and around virtualising the OS away from hardware differences (think how much easier it is to replicate SAN boot devices with VMs?)

HP's never going to be like Sun with 'cool' software that no-one actually uses in production environments (can you say dtrace?), but heck, last time I checked most CIOs couldn't give a damn about how cool software is or how much buzz it creates - they just want it to what the paid their vendor for.

Duncan

[JackFlash]

I have started using those as well on a 2way RX2620 machine. I am trying now to load a VM I created from recovery media so I do not have to re-isntall. Doing it onto a file...hope performance will be OK...