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display of the utilization
of a specific resource for a

available to the Capacity
Advisor Data Collector.

Automatic data conversion
occurs when importing

specific workload or
system.

data into the Insight
Dynamics database.

The Utilization Provider
enables the operation of
the Capacity Advisor
Data Collector.

Use the Report Generator to
create reports for
understanding utilization.

Historical data is stored for
use in Capacity Advisor.

The Utilization Calculator
uses historical utilization

HP Insight Control
virtual machine

Use the web browser to
work with Capacity

data and scales, sums, or

management (virtual

Advisor and exploit its
features.

converts it to
approximate actual or

machine management) data
is made available to the

hypothetical system
utilization.

Capacity Advisor Data
Collector.

Characteristics of
managed systems are
stored in the Insight
Dynamics database and
used when collecting
utilization Data.

Collecting data for a workload with a HP Serviceguard package

You can associate a

monitored workload

with a Serviceguard package. This association

allowsVirtualization Manager to show workloads moving from one system to another within
minutes of a Serviceguard migration. It also allows Capacity Advisor to show an uninterrupted
history of utilization data for a workload across migrations.

Associating monitored workloads and Serviceguard packages requires that Serviceguard and
the corresponding version of the Utilization Provider have been installed on all member systems
of the Serviceguard cluster. For specific version information, see the

HP Insight Software 6.0

Support Matrix

Supported collection configurations

Table 2-1 Collection methods by operating system on CMS and managed node types

Collector for HP-UX CMS

Collector for Microsoft Windows CMS

Managed node software and/or
OS

not supported

VMM

VMM host or guest

not supported

VMM and agentless method

VMM Hyper-V VM

HP VM Provider and Utilization Provider

HP VM Provider and agentless method

Microsoft Windows on HP
Integrity Virtual Machine (HP
VM)

HP VM Provider and agentless method

Linux on HP VM

HP VM Provider and Utilization Provider

HP-UX on HP VM

Utilization Provider

OpenVMS on HP VM

Utilization Provider (Integrity only)

agentless method

standalone Windows

agentless method

standalone Linux

Utilization Provider

standalone HP-UX

Utilization Provider

standalone OpenVMS

Data collection