HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 6)

Assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a scenario.....................................................77
Initially converting VM hosts to simulate a VMware DRS cluster...........................................77
Adding VM hosts to a converted cluster............................................................................78
Removing a VM host from a VMware DRS cluster..............................................................78
Removing a VMware DRS cluster from a scenario..............................................................78
Moving a virtual machine...................................................................................................79
Removing a system.............................................................................................................80
Editing network and disk I/O capacity.................................................................................80
Getting there................................................................................................................80
Setting the upper bound values.......................................................................................81
Working with workloads..........................................................................................................81
Introduction.......................................................................................................................81
Creating a workload..........................................................................................................81
Editing a workload.............................................................................................................82
Moving a workload............................................................................................................83
Move considerations......................................................................................................83
Parking a workload............................................................................................................85
Deleting a workload...........................................................................................................85
Working with power...............................................................................................................85
Calibrating power on actual systems....................................................................................86
Calibrating a single system.............................................................................................86
Calibrating multiple systems at once................................................................................88
Calibrating power within a scenario.....................................................................................89
Getting there................................................................................................................89
Calibrating a single system.............................................................................................89
Calibrating multiple systems at once................................................................................90
Automating time-consuming simulations.....................................................................................90
Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs........................................................91
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................91
Choose the systems to consolidate...................................................................................91
Step 1 of 3: Define the destination system(s) and attributes.................................................91
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................92
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................92
Results: Automated consolidation to VMs.....................................................................93
Automated solution finding: Load balance of servers or VM hosts ............................................94
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................94
Choose the VM hosts or servers to load balance...............................................................94
Step 1 of 3: Define the solution constraints.......................................................................95
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................95
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................95
Results: Automated load balancing of servers or VM hosts.............................................95
Automated solution finding: Workload stacking.....................................................................97
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................97
Choose the workloads to stack........................................................................................97
Step 1 of 3: Stack the specified workloads onto servers......................................................97
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................98
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................98
Results: Automated workload stacking.........................................................................99
Getting more detail............................................................................................................99
5 Using Capacity Analysis..........................................................................101
Introduction..........................................................................................................................101
Accessing Capacity Analysis..................................................................................................102
Exploring the Analysis tab.....................................................................................................102
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