HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 6)

Viewing forecast data in a profile viewer..................................................................................86
Viewing forecast data in a utilization report.............................................................................86
Working with scenarios........................................................................................................................86
Creating a planning scenario...........................................................................................................86
Editing a scenario............................................................................................................................88
Controlling the data display............................................................................................................88
Change the meter style selection................................................................................................88
Change the data collection period by setting the data range.....................................................88
Change the meter representation...............................................................................................90
Copying a scenario..........................................................................................................................90
Renaming a scenario........................................................................................................................90
Undo/edit/review applied what-if actions in a scenario.................................................................91
To view applied what-if actions.................................................................................................91
To edit applied what-if actions...................................................................................................91
Modifying resource utilization values..................................................................................92
Deleting a scenario..........................................................................................................................92
Working with systems..........................................................................................................................93
Creating a system............................................................................................................................93
Adding an existing system..............................................................................................................94
Editing a system..............................................................................................................................94
Changing VMs to be servers............................................................................................................94
Change VMs to server................................................................................................................95
Changing servers to be VMs (manually).........................................................................................95
Change servers to be VMs..........................................................................................................95
Assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a scenario..........................................................96
Initially converting VM hosts to simulate a VMware DRS cluster............................................96
Adding VM hosts to a converted cluster...................................................................................97
Removing a VM host from a VMware DRS cluster...................................................................97
Removing a VMware DRS cluster from a scenario....................................................................97
Moving a virtual machine...............................................................................................................98
Removing a system..........................................................................................................................99
Editing network and disk I/O capacity...........................................................................................99
Getting there...............................................................................................................................99
Setting the upper bound values.................................................................................................99
Working with workloads....................................................................................................................100
Introduction...................................................................................................................................100
Creating a workload......................................................................................................................100
Editing a workload........................................................................................................................101
Moving a workload........................................................................................................................102
Move considerations.................................................................................................................102
Parking a workload........................................................................................................................104
Deleting a workload......................................................................................................................104
Working with power...........................................................................................................................104
Calibrating power within Virtualization Manager........................................................................105
Calibrating a single system......................................................................................................105
Calibrating multiple systems at once.......................................................................................107
Calibrating power within a scenario.............................................................................................107
Getting there.............................................................................................................................108
Calibrating a single system......................................................................................................108
Calibrating multiple systems at once.......................................................................................109
Automating time-consuming simulations..........................................................................................109
Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs.........................................................109
Begin with a scenario................................................................................................................110
Choose the systems to consolidate...........................................................................................110
Step 1 of 3: Define the destination system(s) and attributes....................................................110
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