HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual
Hp capacity advisor 7.1 user guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Capacity Advisor 7.1 User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Features
- 3 Key Capacity Advisor concepts
- Capacity planning goals
- Utilization monitor, calculator, and simulator
- Resources for which Capacity Advisor collects data
- Measuring and analyzing resource utilization
- Adjusting power
- Automating solution generation: HP Smart Solver
- Determining trends in Capacity Advisor
- Forecasting growth
- 4 Procedures
- Accessing Capacity Advisor
- Gathering data for Capacity Advisor
- Data retention period
- Impact of data collection on managed system performance
- Data collection options
- About the HP Capacity Advisor Data Collection Service
- Configuring data metrics to better reflect your environment
- Collecting data without using an agent
- Data collection and the HP Capacity Advisor Consolidation software
- Importing data for use in Capacity Advisor
- Possible sources of discrepancies in collected data
- Producing graphs and reports
- Using the Profile Viewer
- Using the report wizard
- The report wizard
- Creating an historic utilization report
- Creating a scenario utilization report
- Using the report wizard to create a scenario comparison
- Creating a consolidation candidates report
- Creating a cost allocation report
- Creating a peak summary report
- Creating a population report
- Creating a trend report
- Creating a power report
- Setting utilization limits
- Forecasting utilization
- Defining forecast models
- Generating forecasts
- Working with scenarios
- Working with systems
- Working with workloads
- Working with power
- Automating time-consuming simulations
- Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs
- Automated solution finding: Load balance of servers or VM hosts
- Automated solution finding: Workload stacking
- Getting more detail
- 5 Using Capacity Analysis
- Introduction
- Accessing Capacity Analysis
- Exploring the Analysis tab
- Data collection for analysis queries
- Predefined analysis queries
- Creating custom analysis queries
- Custom query examples
- Changing analysis queries
- 6 Planning with Capacity Advisor
- Getting ready
- Task: Understand current resource usage
- Task: Plan server consolidation
- Task: Estimating the effect of adding or moving processors
- Task: Determining where to put a workload using automated solution finding
- Task: Estimating potential power savings across a range of server models
- Example: Estimating potential power savings
- Collect data for a period of time that fully reflects your business cycle(s).
- Check power calibration on existing servers
- Create a planning scenario
- Create a “what-if” representation of a new HP server
- Run a utilization report that includes power selections
- Move workloads from the older servers to the newer server
- Run a utilization report that includes power selections
- Example: Estimating potential power savings
- 7 Using Capacity Advisor with HP Serviceguard
- 8 Troubleshooting in Capacity Advisor
- When there is no connection
- Data is not being collected
- Data may appear to be old when it is not
- Data seems to be incorrect or lost
- Data cannot be imported
- Data analysis is not working in Capacity Analysis
- Out-of-memory errors in the Java heap
- Working with reports
- Working in the scenario editor
- Working with power
- Workload issues
- Miscellaneous user interface issues
- 9 Capacity Advisor error and warning messages
- 10 Support and other resources
- Calculation assistance
- Command reference
- Units and terminology
- Snapshots of Capacity Advisor reports
- Graphed data in Capacity Advisor reports
- Known problems in Capacity Advisor documentation
- Glossary
- Index