The integration reportedly includes a broad range of related products and services designed to enable customers to change the economics of their technology infrastructures.

Offering the most comprehensive support of VMware vSphere 4, HP is chosen most often by organizations deploying virtual environments and has more servers running VMware ESX technology than any other vendor.

Combined with recently launched HP ProLiant G6 server line, virtualization can substantially reduce hardware and power costs. However, employing separate management strategies for virtual and physical environments, as many organizations do, can increase costs. The HP AI portfolio enables customers to manage both environments simultaneously, deliver dynamic capacity planning and automate provisioning and deployment.

Designed to deliver a business-ready infrastructure, HP AI with VMware vSphere 4 can be delivered across various delivery models -- on-premise, as an outsourced offering or via cloud computing -- providing customers with improved efficiency, greater control and flexibility of choice. HP customers also benefit from the many years of development between HP and VMware.

The interoperability of VMware vSphere 4 with HP's portfolio includes: