Compaq DL760 - ProLiant - 1 GB RAM Technology Brief page 6

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Workload Management Pack, featuring Resource Partitioning Manager (RPM), is a resource
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management tool to enable workload consolidations on ProLiant servers running Microsoft
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Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and DataCenter operating systems. Workload
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Management Pack increases the stability and availability of applications under Windows 2000,
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thereby allowing customers to confidently deploy multiple applications on a single server. RPM
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builds upon the embedded job object technology in Windows 2000 to provide a quick and easy
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way to manage processor and memory resources dynamically.
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Store processes from supporting application processes. The first partition contains the store.exe
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process. The second partition contains the processes associated with supporting applications: an
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Exchange 2000 antivirus scanner and a management application discovery agent. Other
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RPM partition. Processor-intensive services like MS_SEARCH (Microsoft's content indexing
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The first step in creating a partition for the store.exe process is to start the Exchange 2000 server.
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Next, use the RPM application to create a new partition (EXstore) and assign the store.exe process
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to this partition. The Add Active Process GUI, shown in Figure 1, is used to assign processes to
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this test, a second partition (manageapp) is created for the supporting applications (antivirus, in
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this particular example). Separate resource partitions could be created for other applications
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sharing resources on the same hardware.
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For more information, see the technology brief titled
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A Server Consolidation Solution for Windows
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Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using
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Figure 1. Add Active Process GUI
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"Compaq Resource Partitioning Manager: