HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 16)

Automated server consolidation to virtual machines ◦
◦
Automated load balancing of existing VM hosts or existing servers
◦ Automated workload stacking (consolidation)
— Create scenario comparison reports
Data collection
Data collection is at the heart of Capacity Advisor and a task is created during configuration to
automatically collect utilization data from all resources licensed for Insight Dynamics and
discovered by HP Systems Insight Manager software (HP SIM). (See
“First data collection (or
the automated nightly collection)” (page 58) .)
HP recommends that once you have become familiar with using Capacity Advisor, you should
review this scheduled task to understand what it is doing and make sure that it fits your needs.
This automated data collection task gathers historical data from all your systems so that the data
is available when you need it for analysis.
Data collection infrastructure
In the data collection infrastructure, each component plays a role, as shown in Figure 2-1 “Capacity
Advisor Data Collection Infrastructure” . It all begins with data collection.
Figure 2-1 Capacity Advisor Data Collection Infrastructure
11 Scenario data is stored
automatically for 6 The Data Collector gathers
data from the agentless 1 The Agentless Data
Collector Services run on
the CMS and collect data
continued use in the
Scenario Editor. data files, the Utilization
Providers running on the
from Microsoft Windows
managed nodes, and
from VMM. and Linux managed
systems. 12 Use the Scenario Editor to
manipulate the collected
data associated with
workloads and systems.
7 2 You can import data (HP
OVPA and HP PMP) into Agentless data collected by
the Agentless Data
Collector Service is made
the historical database for
analysis. 13 Use a Profile Viewer to
examine a graphical
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