HP Capacity Advisor 6.2 Users Guide

virtual machine
host
See VM Host.
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.
See also nPartition, virtual machine.
Virtualization
Manager
HP Insight Virtualization Manager software. Provides hierarchical visualization of servers and
workloads, with seamless access to the management tools of the VSE technologies.
VM See virtual machine.
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.
VM Manager Integrity Virtual Machines Manager. The HP Insight Dynamics application that allows you to
manage and configure Integrity VM.
vPars An HP software product that provides virtual partitions.
See also virtual machine.
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.
The vPars monitor reads and updates the vPars partition database, boots virtual partitions and
their kernels, and emulates certain firmware calls.
See also VM Host.
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.
See also Utilization Provider.
Web-Based
Enterprise
Management
See WBEM.
what-if scenario A configuration of systems and workloads that is different from the current configuration.
Capacity-planning simulations are run using what-if scenarios as experiments before making any
actual configuration changes.
whole-OS
workload
The entire OS instance is considered a workload for recognition by Insight Dynamics
components.
wizard A sequential series of pages that transforms a complex task into simple steps and guides you
though them. The wizard makes sure that you provide all of the required information and do
not skip any steps. At each step, a page is presented that allows you to specify the information
needed to complete that step. Help is available at each step and you always have the option of
going back to continue the wizard from a previous step.
workload The collection of processes in a standalone server, nPartition compartment, virtual partition
compartment, or virtual machine compartment.
See also managed workload, monitored workload, Serviceguard workload.
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