VM Host

A server running software such as HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or Microsoft

 

Virtual Server, that provides multiple virtual machines, each running its own instance of an

 

operating system.

warmup

The period of time during which Application Discovery is comparing discovered processes to

 

the known installations of software and to template definitions of applications.

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.

Web-Based

See WBEM.

Enterprise

 

Management

 

whole-OS

The entire OS instance is considered a workload for recognition by Insight Dynamics

workload

components.

workload

The collection of processes in a standalone 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 compartments and Fair-Share

 

Scheduler group compartments. gWLM enables you to monitor and manage workloads by

 

automatically adjusting the resource allocations of compartments based on policies.

 

See also managed workload, monitored workload, Serviceguard workload.

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