Performance Management Pack; Consolidation Technologies; Resource Partitioning Manager - HP ProLiant DL560 Technology Brief

Performance Management Pack

ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) is a performance management solution that
detects, analyzes, and explains hardware performance bottlenecks on ProLiant servers and attached
options. With the PMP software, system administrators can interactively display performance
information on one or more servers, log the information to a database for later analysis or reporting,
and set up proactive notification using the Insight Manager 7 notification mechanism.
PMP is installed on the same server as the Insight Manager console. PMP functionality requires no
software on the monitored server except for the management agents required for use of Insight
Manager 7. A browser is the only software required on the client machine used to view PMP
information.

Consolidation technologies

The ProLiant DL560 server supports two optional software solutions for server consolidation: Resource
Partitioning Manager and VMware GSX Server.

Resource Partitioning Manager

Resource Partitioning Manager (RPM), the featured component of the HP ProLiant Essentials Workload
Management Pack, is an automated solution for multi-server deployment and provisioning. With this
solution, system administrators can control and dynamically allocate system resources for application
consolidation and performance optimization on ProLiant servers. This capability enables companies to
adapt quickly and easily to changing business demands, maximize use of computing resources, and
improve availability.
Once RPM has been installed on the managed server, system administrators can access RPM both
directly from that server and from other networked servers running RPM to perform four basic
functions:
• Create Resource Partitions: An administrator creates resource partitions on a target server by
establishing a name and defining which processors and how much memory the partition will
include.
• Assign Processes: An administrator chooses which executables, DLLs, and services will run within
the resource partition. In doing so, the administrator ensures that these processes will use only the
assigned partition resources.
• Define Rules: The administrator can use the Dynamic Rules Engine to establish rules allowing objects
to dynamically increase or decrease processor and memory resources as needed.
• Evaluate Configuration and Performance: RPM provides allocation, utilization, and performance
graphs that give administrators quick performance information and feedback.
RPM is a good solution for customer environments in which:
• Each application instance can co-exist in a single system image.
• Applications require more than one processor.
• Dynamic online, automatic resource allocation is required.
• Windows 2000 (and beyond) is the target OS.
More information about the HP ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack and RPM is available
at
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/wmpdescription.html
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