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Evolve your mission‑critical workloads to the private cloud

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3 Executive summary 3 Evolve to the cloud at your own pace 4 Phase 1: Implement a mission-critical Converged Infrastructure 4 Advancing to the next decade with HP Integrity platform 5 Phase 2: Virtualize your mission-critical workloads 5 Mission-critical virtualization 6 Phase 3: Leverage the private cloud for your mission‑critical workloads 7 Accelerate your journey to the private cloud: HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX is ideal for mission‑critical workloads 8 Move to the private cloud with HP 8 For more information

Executive summary As a business user, you have likely been quick to recognize the cloud’s advantages in speeding innovation, accelerating business processes, and reducing time to revenue. However, if you deliver mission-critical services through UNIX®-based applications, you may be concerned about the availability, performance, and security of a cloud environment. We can help you take the first step toward the private cloud for your mission-critical workloads using our Converged Infrastructure as the foundation. Most enterprises are following this common path that allows them to pool and share resources for their most mission‑critical applications. With that in place, you can add virtualization to enable that infrastructure to be used most efficiently while still meeting your service levels. You can then reach the last stage of the journey, provision entire mission-critical environments in minutes rather than months through a private cloud. No matter where you begin, HP provides you with a clear path to the cloud—a path that makes the most of your existing mission-critical infrastructure while protecting your ongoing technology investment. HP CloudSystem gives you an integrated cloud solution that leverages a converged infrastructure and common management approach. This solution enables you to build and manage mission‑critical workloads running on HP-UX and HP Integrity servers alongside workloads running Linux and Windows® on HP ProLiant servers. With our hybrid service delivery model, you can build and manage services across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments with a complete, integrated system. HP CloudSystem leverages best-practice infrastructure templates to build a catalog of services that can be duplicated repeatedly to save you days or weeks when architecting resources for mission-critical applications and services. Consumers for these resources simply access a self‑service portal and request provisioning of the needed resources. To fast-track your service catalog, HP has developed HP Cloud Maps. Working closely with ISV partners, these pre-configured infrastructure‑to‑application service definitions ensure accurate deployment, configuration, and sizing of cloud services. 1

When you begin the journey to move your mission-critical workloads to the private cloud, remember this: HP CloudSystem is the best solution to bring your legacy system forward and enable an agile set of service delivery capabilities across all IT domains.

Evolve to the cloud at your own pace If you are like most business users, you are probably aware of the cloud benefits, such as speeding innovation, accelerating business processes, and reducing time to revenue. A recent Forrester survey of large enterprises, indicate that 29% consider building an internal cloud operated by IT as a high or critical priority.1 Rapid prototyping and test and development are just two examples of where cloud computing is being implemented successfully today. However, if you deliver mission-critical services through UNIX‑based applications you may be concerned about the availability, performance, and security of a cloud environment. We know that your mission-critical workloads have little or no tolerance for downtime and that your IT staff needs to insure that SLAs for uptime and performance can continue to be met as cloud-based approaches are deployed. But you don’t need to wait to start your journey to the cloud, even for your most critical applications. With HP CloudSystem, you can implement a cloud solution to build and manage mission-critical workloads running on HP‑UX and HP Integrity servers alongside workloads running Linux and Windows on HP ProLiant servers, leveraging a converged infrastructure and common management approach. With our HP hybrid service delivery model you get optimal value for both your private and public cloud services. You can build and manage services across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments with a complete, integrated system.

Cloud computing is hot. And when it comes to your mission-critical workloads, HP offers a future-proof approach that will enable you to adopt cloud services when you are ready.

Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., May 17, 2011.

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Phase 1: Implement a mission-critical Converged Infrastructure You can take a first step toward moving to the private cloud for your mission-critical workloads using HP Converged Infrastructure as the foundation. HP Converged Infrastructure provides a blueprint for the data center of the future that accelerates the provisioning of your IT services and applications by integrating HP Integrity and HP ProLiant servers, storage, networking, security, power, cooling, and facilities into shared pools of interoperable resources—all managed through a common management platform. Through adopting HP Converged Infrastructure you can reduce silos and integrate technologies to deliver a whole new level of simplicity, integration, and automation in all your application environments.

Advancing to the next decade with HP Integrity platform The newest line of HP Integrity systems combines years of trusted HP Integrity resiliency with HP BladeSystem efficiencies to form the foundation of the world’s first mission-critical Converged Infrastructure. You can ensure investment protection and longevity, as these servers are expected to support the next three generations of Intel® Itanium® processors. HP Integrity Superdome 2 is the ultimate mission-critical platform, scaling up, out, and within to consolidate applications on a common platform. Engineered with trusted Superdome reliability, Superdome 2 now includes a modular bladed design, common components, and standard racks. In addition, Superdome 2 is more reliable than ever before, with a 450% boost to infrastructure reliability and fault tolerance built into the crossbar fabric. HP Integrity server blades are the world’s first scale-up blades built on the industry’s #1 blade infrastructure—flexible mission-critical server blades combined with the efficiency of HP BladeSystem to accelerate IT effectiveness. Three models—the HP Integrity BL860c i2, the BL870c i2, and the BL890c i2—are the industry’s

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first eight-socket UNIX scale-up server blades. The HP Integrity server blades feature HP’s unique Blade Link technology, which combines multiple blades to create two-, four-, and eight-socket systems, and HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology, offering increased network scalability and configuration flexibility with up to 20 times more networking bandwidth. Plus, HP Integrity server blades offer more than double the performance in half the footprint with built-in resiliency and less power. Finally, the ability to mix and match HP Integrity, HP ProLiant, and HP storage blades within the same enclosure provides flexibility to grow as your business demands change. If you are looking to deploy mission-critical workloads in the cloud, implementing a mission-critical Converged Infrastructure, including transitioning to HP’s newest Integrity servers, is a fundamental step. Along with deploying a cloud-capable infrastructure, you can immediately benefit from the improved performance and cost savings that a server refresh provides. Steelcase recently refreshed its SAP environment and captured a 25% performance boost at 40% less cost using HP Integrity Superdome 2 servers and HP-UX 11i v3.

“HP’s mission-critical virtualization capabilities contribute to our world‑class infrastructure. Our staff can easily manage diverse workloads, maintain service level agreements, and has increased utilization by 45%. To help us consolidate resources and handle workloads more efficiently, we use HP Integrity Virtual Machines, which ultimately allows us to capture a better return on the company’s investment.” — Jon Tanner, Manager, Server Engineering, Steelcase

Phase 2: Virtualize your mission-critical workloads Once you have deployed a mission-critical Converged Infrastructure based on HP’s newest Integrity servers, storage, and networking, you can then virtualize your mission-critical workloads. In a commissioned study conducted on behalf of HP, 60% of the respondents indicated that they had implemented UNIX server virtualization, were expanding/upgrading their implementation, or were planning to implement in the next 12 months. The most widely-adopted virtualization technologies for UNIX customers in the survey were virtual machines (78% adopted); virtual partitions (73%); physical partitions (61%); and containers (17%).2 As many others, you may have underutilized servers today, while at the same time be having difficulties supporting business performance objectives. If this is the case, you are likely seeking ways to achieve higher resource utilization or embarking on consolidation projects to reduce costs while freeing untapped IT capacity. We can help you meet these challenges through our virtualization technologies, as an additional step to fully evolve your mission-critical workloads to the private cloud. Based on HP mission‑critical Converged Infrastructure, we deliver built‑in integration of virtualization technologies and infrastructure management software to dynamically optimize your IT infrastructure. We also give you an integrated management experience for workloads virtualized with HP-UX on HP Integrity servers and x86 workloads virtualized with Linux, VMware, or Windows on HP ProLiant servers.

Mission-critical virtualization We have years of experience delivering comprehensive integration of virtualization, infrastructure management, instant capacity, and availability software. Depending on specific workload requirements, the right balance between isolation and flexibility can be delivered to you using the right mix of HP-UX virtualization techniques:

• Shared OS virtualization, or containers, to consolidate workloads within a single HP-UX instance. Containers deployed by Integrity help you simplify the process of migrating legacy HP 9000 environments to Integrity or reduce your database licensing costs. An additional key element of our mission-critical virtualization solution is the Global Workload Manager, or gWLM, HP-UX’s automation policy engine. Very often, you may not know the exact service level requirements for Line of Business applications, or their relative priority. The gWLM manages workloads across multiple servers, monitors application performance, and determines when CPU resources should be reallocated to provide automated, goal‑based resource management based on SLAs. By integrating the HP-UX virtualization stack and gWLM with the rest of HP’s software portfolio, HP’s mission-critical virtualization can give you higher resiliency and availability without sacrificing flexibility. Below you can read an example of how HP’s mission‑critical virtualization capabilities work as part of a single, integrated infrastructure platform. Imagine an SAP production landscape is running on a five CPU system that is being protected by an HP Serviceguard high‑availability cluster. An outage occurs in the data center and the SAP workload is failed over to a second system. Based on policy, the allocation of resources is adjusted by gWLM to allocate more CPU resources to the SAP environment relative to the test/dev environment that was also running on the second system. With instant capacity software, processors are automatically activated and made available on the remaining cluster nodes to meet specified workload or application performance goals. This level of automation reduces time and effort for IT since all of the components seamlessly work together. It eliminates the need for a system administrator to balance the workload and activate the new processors, so the “soft dollar” benefit of continuous productivity comes without operator intervention. For “hard dollar” (IT budget) savings, the cost of up to 25% of the disaster recovery infrastructure can be saved since additional capacity is only activated in the event of an outage.

• Hard partitioning with electrical and security isolation • More granular software partitioning at core level for additional flexibility • Software virtualization for dynamic, shared resource allocation and mobility

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A commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HP, August 2011.

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With the integrated virtualization and infrastructure management capabilities of HP-UX, the environment can be optimized dynamically to respond to changing business requirements as needed. We can help you simplify the adoption of mission-critical virtualization through the HP VirtualSystem—a portfolio of precision tuned converged systems that deliver the fastest path to agile and efficient virtualized application solutions. For mission‑critical workloads, we have published a Mission-Critical Virtualization Reference Architecture that includes HP Integrity server blades, HP-UX, virtualization software, 3PAR storage, and services. This Reference Architecture provides a faster, simpler path to virtualized systems for your mission‑critical workloads in a single, easy-to-deploy solution. An HP VirtualSystem for the HP Superdome 2 is under development.

Phase 3: Leverage the private cloud for your mission-critical workloads As you increasingly adopt virtualization for your mission‑critical workloads, you may also begin to investigate whether cloud services are appropriate for your UNIX‑based applications. In a commissioned study conducted on behalf of HP, 25% of respondents indicated they had implemented or were expanding their usage of cloud IaaS for their test/dev environments, with 31% planning to implement in the next 12 months. For production workloads of all types, the numbers dropped slightly to 20% and 30% respectively.3 As defined by Forrester, what distinguishes an infrastructure that is cloud-based is: 1) the standardization of provisioning and lifecycle functions; 2) pay-per-use for chargeback or to report on consumption; and 3) a client-facing portal or service catalog.4 We understand that you need to be careful and deliberate when moving your mission-critical workloads to the cloud. You are rightfully sensitive to where your mission-critical data resides. While you may want to transform legacy mission-critical platforms and restructure IT from silos to an agile, dynamic IT environment, you can’t disrupt your mission-critical environment while that is ongoing. Decisions to move mission-critical workloads to a private cloud will be dependent on the size, scope, and complexity of your environment and the expected benefits.

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We can help you ease these concerns with HP CloudSystem—the industry’s most complete, integrated, open platform for building and managing services across private, public, hybrid clouds, and traditional IT environments. HP-UX with Integrity servers can be seamlessly integrated into a CloudSystem Matrix environment that also includes Windows and Linux running on x86 servers. As a result, your users can select their cloud services in the same way, regardless of the platform they run on. HP CloudSystem unifies the control and delivery of your cloud assets, whether in the data center, on an HP-hosted cloud, or an external public cloud. It integrates servers, storage, networking, security, and management to automate the application to infrastructure lifecycle for private and hybrid service delivery management.

Cloud models • IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service, in which the computing infrastructure—including mission‑critical and non‑mission-critical physical and virtualized servers, storage, and networking—is delivered as a service. (Primarily for private cloud) • PaaS: Platform as a Service, where an entire computing platform—including infrastructure and a solution stack and development platform—is delivered as a service. • SaaS: Software as a Service, which makes available not only the infrastructure and the platform, but also software applications running on that platform.

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A commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HP, August 2011.

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Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., May 17, 2011.

Accelerate your journey to the private cloud: HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX is ideal for mission-critical workloads HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX is an integrated cloud solution that includes mission-critical HP Integrity server blades and HP-UX; cloud-optimized HP storage, including the HP 3PAR Utility Storage, EVA or XP storage arrays; and Virtual Connect. Virtual Connect technology simplifies the process of making new connections from physical servers and virtual machines to the LAN and SAN on the fly, by wiring once and reducing cabling by 97%. When you deploy your private cloud on the HP CloudSystem Matrix you ensure that your vital data is protected and secured, your IT capacity is optimized, and your service levels are met. HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX helps you provision complex infrastructure and applications in minutes rather than days; this solution is an ideal foundation for your mission-critical private cloud deployment. You can easily design best-practice infrastructure templates to build a catalog of services that can then be reused, saving you days or weeks of time when architecting infrastructure for your mission-critical applications and services. Consumers for these compute resources simply access a self-service portal and request provisioning of the needed resources. To assist you in fast-tracking the development of an HP CloudSystem service catalog, we have developed HP Cloud Maps. These are pre‑configured infrastructure-to-application service definitions that ensure the accurate deployment, configuration, and sizing of cloud services. We have worked closely with software partners to develop these service definitions that encapsulate proven best practices for deploying specific database, middleware, and applications—such as Oracle RAC, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere, SAP NetWeaver, and many others—that can save you days or weeks of solution design time. For enhanced cloud-optimized application service delivery, monitoring, and management, you can choose to add Cloud Service Automation for Matrix components, Server Automation‑Starter Edition, and SiteScope. HP SiteScope software helps you monitor

your IT infrastructure and applications remotely without agent installation, which is perfect for private cloud and hybrid environments. HP Server Automation cuts your costs and reduces your risk by automating manual server management tasks such as provisioning, patching, configuration management, and compliance management across both physical and virtual servers in the cloud. With your HP CloudSystem Matrix implementation you get on-site installation and customer knowledge transfer from HP Services. If you want to leverage your existing investment in servers and software, we can offer you a CloudSystem Matrix Conversion Service that provides a cost-effective way to start realizing the benefits of shared services and private cloud immediately. We have services to support each stage of the cloud adoption process, from defining your cloud direction and strategy, educating your staff on cloud computing, and offering a single point of support contact for your private cloud infrastructure. We have services for all your cloud service delivery needs—from Web to app to database—and all workloads ranging from x86 to mission-critical.

“HP’s Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure is the solution that perfectly fits our requirements. Our HP representative presented us with a mission-critical solution that met our needs for a simple, reliable, and flexible model delivered through HP‑UX 11i and HP Integrity server blades. Our business is always changing, and we felt that HP’s Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure would allow us to best meet the growing demands of a cloud-based environment.” — Martijn Vriens, Manager, Businessteam Hospitals, PinkRoccade Healthcare

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Move to the private cloud with HP

For more information

No matter where you begin, HP provides you with a clear path to the cloud—a path that makes the most of your existing mission‑critical infrastructure while protecting your ongoing technology investment. HP CloudSystem is the best solution to bring your legacy system forward and enable an agile set of service delivery capabilities across all IT domains.

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