But making the most of this advanced technology often calls for highly specialized skill sets. 

To aid in the process of consolidating HP-9000 Servers, SMS offers VSE Migration services that help you seamlessly consolidate many physical servers into a single physical server with many virtual machines, VPARs or NPARs.

SMS's VSE service delivers a proven methodology to migrate existing physical servers to virtual machines, VPARs or NPARs. The physical-to-virtual (PTV) server migration process involves copying a physical server and transforming the server into a nearly identical VM, VPARs or NPARs . The virtual machine retains the identity of the physical server such as name,  disk configuration, and IP settings.

• A smooth path for server consolidation and/or migration.
• Expedited server consolidation.
• The ability to rebuild a server with limited knowledge of the legacy server.

PTV migrations are ideal because they provide customers with a path for server consolidation and/or server migration. PTV migrations can save time and effort by eliminating the need to reinstall and reconfigure complex application environments. PTV migrations are also helpful in situations where rebuilding a server by reinstalling and reconfiguring software is not possible due to limited knowledge of the legacy server.

• Set up a PTV VM migration environment.
• PTV VM migration process knowledge transfer.
• PTV VM machine migration proof of concept.
• Provide consultation regarding the requirements for server migration and consolidation planning and considerations.

• The ability to leverage SMS technical consultants extensive industry and product experience for efficient knowledge transfer
• Speed in getting HP-UX VPARs running
• The ability to ensure a successful HP-UX VPAR deployment

• Set up, install, configure, and run HP-UX VPAR software, tailored to your environment
• Provide working virtual machines for testing and discussion
• Deliver HP-UX VPAR knowledge transfer via an interactive proof of concept working session
• VPAR creation and management
• Provide consultation regarding the requirements for integrating HP-UX VPAR into your enterprise operations
• Develop and implement best practices for product use

Our high level of experience with HP-UX, Solaris, OpenVMS, AIX and Windows enables us to help you maximize your IT investments, minimize your service costs and extend your product life-cycle. We use a flexible and collaborative process that is customized to help you design, build, integrate and manage solutions in the most effective way that makes sense for your business.