HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 6)

Assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a scenario.....................................................76
Initially converting VM hosts to simulate a VMware DRS cluster...........................................76
Adding VM hosts to a converted cluster............................................................................77
Removing a VM host from a VMware DRS cluster..............................................................77
Removing a VMware DRS cluster from a scenario..............................................................77
Moving a virtual machine...................................................................................................78
Removing a system.............................................................................................................79
Editing network and disk I/O capacity.................................................................................79
Getting there................................................................................................................79
Setting the upper bound values.......................................................................................79
Working with workloads..........................................................................................................79
Introduction.......................................................................................................................79
Creating a workload..........................................................................................................80
Editing a workload.............................................................................................................81
Moving a workload............................................................................................................81
Move considerations......................................................................................................81
Parking a workload............................................................................................................83
Deleting a workload...........................................................................................................83
Working with power...............................................................................................................84
Calibrating power on actual systems....................................................................................84
Calibrating a single system.............................................................................................85
Calibrating multiple systems at once................................................................................86
Calibrating power within a scenario.....................................................................................87
Getting there................................................................................................................87
Calibrating a single system.............................................................................................88
Calibrating multiple systems at once................................................................................88
Automating time-consuming simulations.....................................................................................88
Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs........................................................89
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................89
Choose the systems to consolidate...................................................................................89
Step 1 of 3: Define the destination system(s) and attributes.................................................90
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................90
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................90
Results: Automated consolidation to VMs.....................................................................91
Automated solution finding: Load balance of servers or VM hosts ............................................92
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................92
Choose the VM hosts or servers to load balance...............................................................92
Step 1 of 3: Define the solution constraints.......................................................................93
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................93
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................93
Results: Automated load balancing of servers or VM hosts.............................................94
Automated solution finding: Workload stacking.....................................................................95
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................95
Choose the workloads to stack........................................................................................95
Step 1 of 3: Stack the specified workloads onto servers......................................................96
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................96
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................96
Results: Automated workload stacking.........................................................................97
Getting more detail............................................................................................................97
5 Using Capacity Analysis............................................................................99
Introduction............................................................................................................................99
Accessing Capacity Analysis..................................................................................................100
Exploring the Analysis tab.....................................................................................................100
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