HPs opts to rely on Veritas virtualisation
HPs opts to rely on Veritas virtualisation
Dec 6, 2004: Hewlett-Packard had decided to sign a deal with Veritas to OEM its virtualisation services instead of creating its own, which brings its original plans a year ahead of schedule.
HP has signed a multi-year agreement with Veritas to OEM Veritas' Storage Foundation Cluster File System and Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC products and then integrate them into HP Serviceguard.
HP hopes the Veritas deal will provide HP-UX with clustered file services in 2005.
The storage giant had intended to integrate two features from the Tru64 operating system into HP-UX, called the Advanced Filesystem and TruCluster, in the HP-UX 11i version 3 releases in 2006.
However, HP has experienced complexities during the process of integration, according to analysts, so it has chosen to OEM Veritas' virtualisation software instead to provide services to the market at an earlier date.
Rich Marcello, the senior vice president and general manager of business critical servers at HP said: "Our collaboration with Veritas helps us to deliver on our Adaptive Enterprise strategy and assists our Unix customers in their evolution to next-generation platforms.
"The thousands of customers running HP Serviceguard on HP-UX 11i today will gain access to Veritas software - directly from HP - and close integration, a simplified purchasing process and cooperative support."
Kris Hagerman, the executive vice president of the storage and server management group at Veritas added: "HP's decision to make Veritas the preferred file system and volume management offering for highly available HP-UX 11i environments opens up exciting new capabilities for our joint customers, and is a strong validation of Veritas' ability to deliver industry-leading infrastructure solutions that support customers' heterogeneous environments, including HP-UX 11i and other leading platforms."
HP hopes that the integrated solutions will be a key part of the HP Virtual Server Environment for HP-UX11i. This means that the tight integration of virtualisation and high availability will allow HP VSE customers to expand and contract server resources in real time based on business priorities and maintain service levels in the event of unexpected downtime.
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