Chapter Overview


Every year approximately 8 million commercial airline flights transport more than 500 million passengers across the United States.[1] The aircraft form a web of traffic across the skies, congregating at various hubs throughout the country. At every intersection in the web of airline traffic are the air traffic controllers, who see to it the airline passengers and cargo are safely sent on their way and received without incident. Air traffic controllers rely on several tools to keep the airplanes safely traveling the skies. Among the most central is the Final Approach Spacing Tool (FAST).[2] This software tool brings together several components that are critical for maintaining safe and reliable air travel. For example, the FAST software integrates the radar and weather systems. Additionally, the FAST tool has integrated components that analyze the route and trajectory of each aircraft. The FAST tool brings numerous technologies that have existed individually for long periods of time together under a single interface. Using this tool, air traffic controllers are able to more efficiently and safely use the available airspace and ground support resources while ensuring that aircraft and passengers arrive safely at their destinations.

[1] USA Department of Transportation press release, "October Airline Traffic: Ten-Month Domestic Traffic," available at http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2005/bts004_05/html/bts004_05.html.

[2] Center-TRACON Automation System under Dr. Dallas Denery, "Final Approach Spacing Tool," available at http://www.ctas.arc.nasa.gov/project_description/fast.html.

HP's Virtualization Manager is similar in many ways to the FAST tool. Virtualization Manager is a set of graphical user interfaces and technologies that bring the technologies in HP's Virtual Server Environment together into a single console. Administrators using Virtualization Manager have all the information they need to deploy workloads, monitor applications, and maintain the health of the datacenter. Like the air traffic controllers who rely on FAST to safely direct aircraft, administrators who depend on Virtualization Manager are better equipped to efficiently utilize hardware resources while ensuring that workloads meet their service-level objectives.

Virtualization Manager is integrated into the HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) product that has been available for several years. Because of Virtualization Manager tight integration with HP SIM, this chapter discusses several features of HP SIM in concert with the discussion of Virtualization Manager.

This chapter begins by discussing the most commonly used terminology relating to HP SIM and the VSE management suite. Next, the chapter provides an architectural overview of the VSE management suite. It concludes with a detailed tour of HP SIM and the VSE management suite.

It should be noted this chapter was written using pre-release versions of the VSE management suite and HP Systems Insight Manager. Some of the screens shown in this chapter will vary slightly from the final products.



The HP Virtual Server Environment. Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter
The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter
ISBN: 0131855220
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 197

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