The ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack (WMP) is a software solution that controls and dynamically allocates system resources to enable application consolidation and performance optimization on Windows® 2000 server platforms bringing maximum utilization, lower total cost of ownership, and improved availability IT environments. WMP provides the tools you need to safely consolidate applications or optimize performance. With the WMP software, Resource Partitioning Manager v2.0, you configure resource partitions, application boundaries defined by their allocated quantity of processor and memory resources. Each partition enjoys access to specific, limited processor and memory resources. Limited access means that resources are available for your applications when they need them. Limited access also means no more worries about decreased availability created by memory-leaking applications.
Resource Partitioning Manager is installed on the managed server and can be accessed both directly from that server and from other networked servers running RPM.
Within Resource Partitioning Manager, there are four basic functions: Create Resource Partitions, Assign Processes, Define Rules, and Evaluate Configuration and Performance.

• Create Resource Partitions: An administrator creates the resource partitions on a target server by establishing a name and defining which processors and what amount of memory the partition will include.
• Assign Processes: An administrator chooses which executables, DLL's 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: A Dynamic Rules Engine creates flexibility in the amount of resources available to each partition. The administrator can use the engine to establish rules that allow objects to dynamically increase or decrease processor and memory resources as needed.
• Evaluate Configuration and Performance: Allocation, utilization, and performance graphs give administrators quick performance information and feedback.

• Effective July 9, 2007, HP will no longer offer the Workload Management Pack. This product has been discontinued.

• Maximize return on server investments by increasing utilization of available system resources – For each server in an environment, there is an opportunity cost associated with unutilized capacity. Workload Management Pack makes it possible t o use idle capacity without compromising application availability and performance.
• Minimize server management costs – With Workload Management Pack, Windows 2000 administrators no longer have to manage an additional server for each additional application; multiple applications can run effectively on a single server, reducing monthly management costs and application licensing costs.
• Improve availability by controlling misbehaved applications – Partitioning misbehaved applications and limiting those applications to the resources within their respective partitions protects other applications from their unpredictable nature.
• Deliver processor and memory resources on demand whenever they are needed, improving application performance during heavy workloads – The Workload Management Pack gives control over not only how resources are allocated, but when resources are allocated. Each resource partition has rules associated with it. These rules can be used to automate changes to the partition based on utilization or time of day.

• Server Consolidation – ProLiant customers who are currently deploying one application instance per server can consolidate multiple applications onto a single server running Windows 2000, consolidating the computing environment and reducing management costs.
• Enhanced Clustering – Customers whose environments include active-passive cluster configurations can use Resource Partitioning Manager Landing Zones to reserve resources for application fail-over on an active target server.
• Improved Availability – Resource Partitioning Manager can protect against memory leaks in a Windows 2000 environment by allowing the customer to place applications in their own independent resource partitions.
• Enhanced Performance – Resource partitions can be used to ensure that resources are available to applications when they need them, ensuring that applications continue to perform, maintaining the service levels that customers expect.

• ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack* (Shipped with every ProLiant Server from HP.)
• Remote Insight Board Lights-Out Edition
• ProLiant Essentials Lights-Out Advanced Pack
• Insight Manager 7
• ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack
• SmartStart Scripting Toolkit
• ProLiant ML, DL, and BL servers

* May be named the Server Setup & Management Pack in some servers.

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