Using the profile viewer – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual
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Using the Profile Viewer
A profile viewer provides a quick summary of historical resource utilization, presenting data
graphically as well as in tabular summaries. See also “Profile Viewer Screen” in Capacity Advisor
Help for specific descriptions of the screen functions.
A profile viewer can be accessed from the system meters on the Visualization tab, the HP SIM
Optimize
menu, or from the meters or menu selections on the Edit Scenario tabs in Capacity
Advisor.
A profile viewer opened from the Visualization tab generally displays the actual resource
utilization data collected from the selected node.
However, for non-OS node types such as an enclosure, a complex, or a vpar monitor, which do
not have an operating system (OS) or hypervisor from which to collect actual resource utilization
data, a profile viewer calculates the utilization profile by aggregating the actual data from all of
the associated child nodes (blades, nPartitions, or vPartitions, respectively).
A profile viewer opened from the scenario editor, on the other hand, always aggregates data from
all of the workloads on a system or from all of the virtual machines (VM) running on a VM host
when the VMs are included in the scenario. This is true even when there is actual data collected
for the operating system or hypervisor. Aggregation is done to account for the modifications
that can be made to a scenario, such as adding, removing, or moving workloads, changing the
actual profile data, or changing the resource allocations within the modeled hardware. Due to
the malleability of a scenario, it is possible that a scenario profile of a node could differ from
profile viewed from the Visualization tab in Virtualization Managerfor the real node.
This is particularly true of physical nodes that contain virtual nodes, such as a VM host.
Additionally, for ESX VM hosts, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Hyper-V hosts, data for non-guest
workloads is not collected for use in the 4.1 release of Capacity Advisor. Therefore, profile views
accessed from the scenario editor do not account for utilization by workloads that are not VM
guests.
IMPORTANT:
For specific descriptions of each field or summary table on the user interface
screens, click the help topic link
on the software screen for the task.
The following sections describe how to access a profile viewer from various locations within HP
SIM.
Prerequisites
•
You must be logged in to Insight Dynamics (see
“Accessing Capacity Advisor” (page 53)
).
•
You must have collected data on the systems of interest (see
Some functions of a profile viewer require Capacity Advisor Tools permissions to be seen and
used.
Procedure 5-13 To access a profile viewer from the HP SIM Optimize menu
This procedure gives you access to view historic resource utilization on a real system in your
network.
1.
Select Optimize
→View Profile...
The target selection wizard opens.
2.
Select one system to view and click Apply. (For information on a typical task progression
in HP SIM, see “Creating a Task” in the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 online help.
Producing graphs and reports
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