Tools such as HP's SIM provide a view into both the opportunities and the challenges facing the management of virtualized environments today and in the months and years ahead. They show that it is possible to bring considerable consistency to managing a varied set of virtualization approaches and workload management techniques on a single system; managed environments need not be limited to a single operating system, architecture or style of workload management.

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