HP Virtual Resource Pools are created from purpose-built systems able to create adaptive, shared capacity that can be combined, divided and repurposed to match any application demand faster and more efficiently.

Individual systems can be carved up or aggregated together to present a large pool that can be optimized for a variety of applications.

This enables customers to meet the unique, dynamic requirements of a Converged Infrastructure and shared-services model by maximizing the scalability, flexibility and utilization of resources.

For the first time, businesses will be able to support a shared-service model with a common pool of adaptive, virtualized resources based on standards that can be can be optimized for all types of enterprise, cloud, and HPC applications.

Benefits

• Increases total utilization by freeing and repurposing trapped capacity to support applications
• Ensures resiliency and flexibility to support any application on any resource
• Accelerates standardization to enable higher levels of automation and increase productivity
• Protects investments through simplified integration with existing systems, upgrades to new capabilities and scalability to meet future demand
• Fully orchestrated by IOE - creating virtual pools of resources and orchestrating those pools collectively we are removing the silos of dedicated management and skill set which raise costs and complexity.

Virtual resource pools deliver:

Facilitate the pooling and sharing storage, network and compute

• Today’s storage and networking resources must become fully virtualized to match the dynamic requirements of virtualized servers.  The goal is make any resource shareable and expandable to meet new and changing application demands.

Accelerate change processes with virtual connections that scale up, down, and out as needed

• Not only must the capacity of each resource be virtualized, but the connections, configuration and unique identities of each resource must also be virtualized to enable rapid change automatically instead of requirement manual intervention.

Accurately collect and report status and performance levels

• Each component must be instrumented to report physical location, energy use, performance and health status with common interfaces included to allow the infrastructure operating environment to take actions required to support applications in an optimal way.

Facilitate high levels of standardization of components and processes

• Adaptive resource pools must be constructed with modular designs and open standards to simplify integration with existing systems, upgrades to new capabilities and scalability to meet future demand.  Each system must also be more self-sufficient to optimize its own performance, resolve health issues, and simplify setup.