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Using the report wizard, The report wizard – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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Procedure 5-20 To switch to alternate utilization resource metrics

You can cause a profile viewer to display any of the utilization resource metrics provided by
Capacity Advisor.

Click the radio button to the left of the metric that you want to view.

The user interface pauses momentarily to reset the screen display to the new metric, updating
both the utilization graphic and the Interval Metric Summary table.

Using the report wizard

Capacity Advisor reports provide valuable summaries and details from data collected from
managed systems. Reports can be generated that describe:

resource utilization for CPU, memory, network I/O, disk I/O, and power consumption for
real systems (historic usage) and for systems within a scenario (simulated usage), and
including trends in usage over a period of time.

candidates for system consolidation

cost allocation by resource

summary of peak values for CPU and memory (historic or simulated)

system populations (by OS type, processor type, cores per socket, and total cores per socket)

comparisons among scenarios

The report wizard

This general description of the report wizard applies to all reports, though options vary within
the wizard depending on the report type and other options selected. For specific descriptions of
each field on the report wizard screens, click the help link on the software screen.

IMPORTANT:

For specific descriptions of each field or summary table on the user interface

screens, click the help topic link

on the software screen for the task.

Getting there

The report wizard can be accessed from the following locations:

the HP SIM Optimize and Reports menus

the Virtualization Manager Report menu on the Visualization tab

the Report menu on the Capacity Advisor tab

TIP:

For lists of all menu options for Capacity Advisor features, see “Menus & tabs” in Capacity

Advisor Help.

Prerequisites

You must be logged in to Insight Dynamics. (See

“Accessing Capacity Advisor” (page 55)

.)

You must have collected data for the systems of interest (see

“Gathering data for Capacity

Advisor” (page 55)

).

You must be authorized and licensed on all systems to be included in the report (see HP
Insight Dynamics 6.2 Getting Started Guide
).

Procedure 5-21 Select targets and set date range

For specific descriptions of each field on the user interface screens, click the help link on the
software screen for the task.

Producing graphs and reports

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