An example scenario comparison report, Calculating a virtualization consolidation ratio – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual
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5.
Choose one of the following actions:
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Press OK to accept the selections and return to the Select Report Targets screen. A
Date Selection
area appears in the screen.
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Press Cancel to end the report creation and return to your originating screen.
6.
To set the date range, look at the default provided (the full range of data collected). Decide
if you want to modify this value. If so, select the beginning and ending date/time.
7.
Click Next to continue to the Select Report Options screen.
Procedure 5-27 Selecting report details in a scenario comparison
All resource metric options are available in a scenario comparison. All selectable fields are
combined into one section called General Report Options.
1.
Put a check in the box(es) next to the resource types that you want to compare.
2.
If you selected the Power resource type, fill in the Currency, Cost per kWh, and Cooling
Cost Multiplier values. For detailed discussion of the available power options, see
3.
Choose the scale (absolute utilization numbers, percent of allocated resources used, or both).
4.
Select Finish to create and complete the report.
An example scenario comparison report
The following image illustrates one small part of a scenario comparison report.
Figure 5-1 Comparison of three scenarios in a Capacity Advisor report
This report includes two consolidation solutions provided by the Smart Solver
(ServerConsolidationResult-SmallSystem and ServerConsolidationResults-BigSystem)
and the original pre-consolidation set of physical servers (ServerConsolidationScenario). For
more snapshots from this same report, see
Calculating a virtualization consolidation ratio
It can be useful to look at the resulting ratio of virtual machines to physical servers after running
a system or workload consolidation simulation to help in evaluating the return on investment
for a particular configuration of machines. Currently, Capacity Advisor does not supply this
ratio in its reports, but you can easily calculate ratios for a set of scenarios that you wish to
compare.
Prerequisites
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You must be logged in to Insight Dynamics (see
“Accessing Capacity Advisor” (page 53)
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You must have created a planning scenario that represents the system configuration that
you want to consolidate. (See
“Creating a planning scenario” (page 84)
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