Chapter 8. Overview of HP s Utility Pricing Solutions

Chapter 8. Overview of HP's Utility Pricing Solutions

HP's Utility Pricing solutions for the HP 9000 and Integrity servers consists of a set of solutions that makes it possible to acquire servers and server components and only pay for what you use.

At first glance it might not be obvious why Utility Pricing Solutions are considered part of the Virtual Server Environmentthat is, until you consider that these solutions are tightly integrated with the rest of the VSE, including the partitioning continuum and workload management. All of these solutions allow you to instantly activate additional capacity to respond to changes in the demand on workloads. Since this dynamism is a major driving force of the rest of the VSE, these solutions fit in very nicely.