Integrity VM vs the more "traditional" Vpar strategy?

[john guardian]

I've been hearing a lot lately (from SE's) about the Integrity VM product which is due out (next MARCH?) soon. Anyone know anything about it? I believe it's supposedly similar to VMWARE which I've seen run on AIX platforms. I'm curious as to whether or not this VM product will allow for "micro-partitioning". Seems like it should.

Any thoughts?

JM

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Joe,

Yep - that's exactly what it's designed to do.
I believe you can get granularity down to 5% of a CPU. But like vPars you have to designate I/O to a particular VM "slice", so the greatest limiting factor will be slot count in the system.
The caveat being that it's designed to only run on Integrity platforms.
We're currently assessing it for deployment in our development environment. Appears promising, but we've been given overhead values ranging from 5 - 20% needed to "handle" the VM environment.

HTH,
Jeff

[Torsten.]

Hi Joe,

you are right!

Read more:

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/262803-0-0-0-121.html

[Steven E. Protter]

For planning.

Don't rely on future delivery dates.

I'm still waiting for NFS v4, which was "very close" to done at HP World 2004.

Sounds like a fantastic product, wonder what systems it will eventually run on.

:-)

SEP

[john guardian]

Thanks for the info guys!