HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 64)

Using Capacity Advisor with consolidation software server data
Because servers using the HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software are not licensed
for Insight Dynamics, you must use HP SIM Optimize menu options for Capacity Advisor to
collect and manipulate this data.
The available Optimize menu options allow you to do the following actions:
• view a utilization profile
• collect data
• import data
• view and create scenarios
• create various reports
Viewing the licensed servers in HP SIM
Another implication of this limited license is that servers with this license are not visible in the
Visualization
tab of Virtualization Manager. To see these servers in a list, look for “All Servers”
selections and links within HP SIM task screens and a few Capacity Advisor screens. The “All
Servers” list allows you to view and select servers licensed with the HP Insight Capacity Advisor
Consolidation software for inclusion in scenarios or for creating reports.
Importing data for use in Capacity Advisor
To import system utilization data, the system must be discovered by HP SIM.
For systems that you know are running HP Performance Agent (OVPA), you can verify discovery
by clicking “All Systems” or “All Servers” in the HP SIM left navigation bar.
If the system has not been discovered, you can add it manually. (From the top menu bar, select
Options
→Discovery.... You must be a privileged administrator user or root to see this option.)
For help on adding a system manually, see the “Discovery and Identification” topic in the HP
Systems Insight Manager 6.2 online help. After you add a system, verify that the system appears
in “All Systems” view.
For systems running HP Performance Management Pack (PMP), select Optimize
→Capacity
Advisor
→List PMP Systems to see the list of discovered servers running PMP.
Once you verify that the system of interest has been discovered by HP Systems Insight Manager
software, you can import system utilization data into Capacity Advisor.
IMPORTANT: Avoid importing PMP or OVPA data that overlaps time intervals where agentless
data collection has already occurred. Mixing the two data sets can produce confusing reports,
because the agentless collector obtains more metrics than the PMP or OVPA collectors, and the
imported data will overwrite only the metrics that both collectors obtain. This is primarily an
issue when the imported data has invalid data points and the agentless set does not.
Instead, determine if there are time periods where data was not collected using the agentless
method. Import data only for those time periods. Capacity Advisor will behave as though all
the data collected is one contiguous set, and reports will better reflect the actual resource usage.
See
“Ascertaining the data collection availability for a set of servers” (page 66) for instructions.
From the Optimize menu — Import HP OVPA data
Prerequisites
• You must be logged in to Insight Dynamics (see “Accessing Capacity Advisor” (page 55) ).
• The system(s) must be discovered by HP SIM.
Procedure 5-10 Import HP OVPA data into Capacity Advisor
1. Click Optimize
→Capacity Advisor→Import OVPA System Data....
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