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Data collection, Data collection infrastructure – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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Import existing workload profiles

Edit workload demands

Move workloads between systems

Park workloads

Delete workloads

For scenarios themselves:

View and undo/redo scenario changes

Use the

HP Smart Solver

technology to perform:

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

Utilization data collection is at the heart of Capacity Advisor.

Collection of resource usage data is managed by a service, rather than by a scheduled task in the
CMS. The service gathers data provided by the Utilization Provider and native data collectors and
normalizes it into five-minute data points. The service starts automatically on installation and runs
constantly unless stopped — providing data for visualization of resource usage on discovered
systems and workloads and for capacity planning. When needed, the service can be

stopped or

restarted on the CMS

.

Data collection infrastructure

In the data collection infrastructure, each component plays a role, as shown in

Figure 1 (page 17)

.

It all begins with data collection.

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Features