With the value of virtualization, things are going toward a real-time infrastructure, which requires a lot of complex additional services. There are several phases on the road to this goal: managing physical systems, consolidating storage, rationalizing the infrastructure and finally consolidating workloads.
Key infrastructure challenges are: the server sprawl (physical and virtual), low CPU utilization rates, capacity planning, silos and "wait time" (the time to get a server operational, long because of silos in the organization), energy costs, HA (high availability) costs.
Martin Riley (HP Infrastructure Software Marketing) then talks about HP's take on the next data center: adaptative infrastructure. One key to make it all work is management. Other technology enablers are security, virtualization, automation (for HA).
The presentation then goes on with HP solution advertisement (again!): server virtualization, virtual infrastructure, storage virtualization, client virtualization and infrastructure management at the middle.
Insight to Action to Results: the process (helped by HP tools) leads to continuous consolidation (with monitoring and adapting in real time), everyday HA (servicing the infrastructure in real time), dynamic test and development infrastructure, energy-aware planning (deep inside the cabinet, the rack and the server).
A lot of the workload will not be virtualized, so HP imagined the concept of a tool allowing reallocation of "physical" workloads, and everything else you can do with virtual machines. It leads to the idea of a "logical server", which is a server profile (or "template") that can move across virtual and physical servers
Insight manager VSE is a single tool for capacity planning, provisioning (quick), energy monitoring…
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