Utilization

The WBEM services provider for real-time utilization data from managed systems.

Provider

 

VCEM

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager. A management tool for defining a server connection

 

profile for each server bay. This profile establishes the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses

 

for all Network Interface Controllers (NICs), the World Wide Names (WWNs) for all host bus

 

adapters (HBAs), and the SAN boot parameters. If the server blade in the server bay is replaced,

 

the configuration and connection profile stays constant.

virtual machine

A software entity provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or

 

Microsoft Hyper-V. This technology allows a single server or nPartition (with Integrity Virtual

 

Machines) to act as a VM Host for multiple individual virtual machines, each running its own

 

instance of an operating system (referred to as a guest OS). Virtual machines are managed

 

systems under Insight Dynamics.

virtual partition

A software partition of a server, or of a single nPartition, where each virtual partition can run

 

its own instance of an operating system. A virtual partition cannot span an nPartition boundary.

VM Host

A server running HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or Microsoft

 

Hyper-V that provides multiple virtual machines, each running its own instance of an operating

 

system.

vPars

An HP software product that provides virtual partitions.

vPars monitor

The program that manages the assignment of resources to virtual partitions in a vPars-enabled

 

system. To enable virtual partitions, the vPars monitor must be booted in place of a normal

 

HP-UX kernel. Each virtual partition running under the monitor then boots its own HP-UX

 

kernel.

WBEM

Web-Based Enterprise Management. A set of web-based information services standards

 

developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. A WBEM provider offers access to

 

a resource. WBEM clients send requests to providers to get information about and access to the

 

registered resources.

WMI

Windows Management Instrumentation. Insight Dynamics uses WMI for data collection from

 

managed systems running Microsoft Windows. WMI queries and responses are converted to

 

WBEM through the WMI Mapper.

workload

The collection of processes in a stand-alone server, nPartition compartment, virtual partition

 

compartment, or virtual machine compartment. HP Insight Global Workload Manager software

 

for Integrity (gWLM) extends this concept to include processor set (PSET) compartments and

 

Fair-Share Scheduler (FSS) group compartments. gWLM enables you to monitor and manage

 

workloads by automatically adjusting the resource allocations of compartments based on policies.

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