HP Expands Virtualization Capabilities of HP ProLiant Servers with Support of Industry-leading Partners

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Mar 24, 2008

HP Expands Virtualization Capabilities of HP ProLiant Servers with Support of Industry-leading Partners

HP today announced technologies that integrate virtualization capabilities into the HP ProLiant server platform, allowing customers to rapidly and simply virtualize their server environments.

Called HP ProLiant iVirtualization, these technologies allow businesses of all sizes to lower costs, improve productivity and better allocate resources across their server infrastructures.

HP has joined with the industry’s largest virtualization vendors – VMware, Citrix and Microsoft – to develop these technologies, which integrate virtualization with a broad range of HP ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms.

iVirtualization is integrated directly into the ProLiant server using features that leverage customers’ existing server management tools. As such, when a server is powered on, it is automatically and immediately configured into a fully capable virtualization environment.

This enables companies to adopt virtualization with greater speed and simplicity. Moreover, by taking advantage of HP Insight Control, iVirtualization increases business agility, improves quality of service and streamlines infrastructure management.

“iVirtualization combines our industry-leading ProLiant servers with multiple virtualization technologies, then adds a high level of integration and management capabilities to deliver an unrivaled user experience,” said Scott Farrand, vice president, Industry Standard Server Software, HP. “By better managing their technology infrastructures and resources using virtualization, customers will have more time to focus on initiatives that impact their bottom line.”

HP offers a broad virtualization portfolio: from server-based offerings such as HP ProLiant iVirtualization, to infrastructure solutions such as HP Insight Control management software and HP Insight Dynamics - VSE, to HP Data Center Automation software that provides seamless management and automation of the complete lifecycle of virtual and physical environments.

The depth of complementary technologies from HP and its extensive collaboration with its partners allow customers to choose the right combination of virtualization solutions that best fits their specific business needs.

The HP ProLiant iVirtualization portfolio

HP ProLiant iVirtualization is designed for small to medium-size businesses as well as enterprise customers. Offerings include:

HP ProLiant iVirtualization powered by VMware ESX 3i – Initially announced in February, this integrated solution allows customers of all sizes to quickly and easily deploy a server into a VMware environment for either single server partitioning or as a fully functioning plug-and-play component within a data center virtualized by VMware. HP plans to make this available on ProLiant servers beginning March 31.
HP ProLiant iVirtualization powered by Citrix XenServer – This integrated solution features a new interface called HP ProLiant Virtual Console, which offers substantially improved configuration, management and ease of use for virtualized ProLiant servers. It provides a fast and simple path to virtualization on a single server or as part of an end-to-end Citrix solution for server, application and desktop virtualization. HP plans to make this solution available to customers beginning March 31.
Microsoft® Hyper-V Server for HP ProLiant iVirtualization – Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server solution running on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers allows customers to consolidate multiple server roles running as separate virtual machines to a single physical server while using both Microsoft’s and HP’s management tools. HP ProLiant iVirtualization powered by Microsoft Hyper-V Server will be made available following the release of Hyper-V Server by Microsoft.

HP ProLiant Virtual Console – The new HP ProLiant Virtual Console advances the simplicity and manageability of a virtualized server from a local console or remotely via the HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO) Advanced console. Using this exclusive capability from HP, which is initially available on ProLiant servers with iVirtualization powered by Citrix XenServer, customers are able to easily create and manage virtual machines on individual servers. In addition, customers can:

perform subsequent configuration, visualization and modification of key controls of the virtualization platform;
use a single “hot-key” to quickly toggle between each virtual machine console;
select a multi-screen view that displays multiple virtual machine consoles at once; and
use HP ProLiant Virtual Console to create unlimited virtual machines on HP Select Edition.

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