Creating a consolidation candidates report, Creating a cost allocation report – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual
Page 73
•
You must have consolidated the systems in the initial planning scenario onto the VM host(s)
of your choice. For purposes of comparison, you may want to save two to three different
consolidation simulations. (See
“Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs”
•
You must have run a scenario comparison report that includes your initial planning scenario
and your consolidated scenario results. (See
“Using the report wizard to create a scenario
Procedure 5-28 Calculate virtualization consolidation ratios using data from a scenario comparison
report
1.
Examine the scenario comparison report. (As an example, see
.)
2.
For the systems scenario in the report, subtract the Number of VM Hosts in that scenario
from the Number of Physical Servers Including VM Hosts. This value represents the
number of physical servers that are to be consolidated into virtual machines.
3.
For each consolidation solution scenario, calculate the virtualization consolidation ratio:
number_of_physical_servers
/number_of_VM_hosts
For example, using the data in
, you can determine that the number of
physical servers to be consolidated is 20.
The ratio for the small system consolidation is 20/6, and the ratio for the big system consolidation
is 20/3 – meaning that the 20 physical servers can fit on 6 small VM hosts or 3 larger VM hosts.
Creating a consolidation candidates report
1.
Select Reports
→Capacity Advisor→Create Consolidation Candidate Reports...
2.
The Report Wizard opens on the Select Report Targets screen.
Select the collection, complex, scenario, or systems for which you want the report, and select
the data range.
See
Select targets and set date range
for more information.
3.
Select details specific to report type.
1.
Select one or more types of resources for which you want to see data from among CPU,
memory, network I/O, and disk I/O.
2.
Click Finish.
4.
Click the appropriate link to browse the report in a web browser or to save the report to the
location that you designate.
To return to a planning checklist:
•
Consolidating server loads onto a virtual machine manually [p. 36]
•
Consolidating server loads onto a virtual machine using automated solution finding [p. 47]
•
Determining where to put a workload using automated solution finding
Creating a cost allocation report
1.
Select Reports
→Capacity Advisor→Create VM Host Cost Allocation Reports... or
Reports
→Capacity Advisor→Create Workload Cost Allocation Reports...
2.
The Report Wizard opens on the Select Report Targets screen.
Select the collection, complex, scenario, or systems for which you want the report, and select
the data range.
See
Select targets and set date range
for more information.
3.
Select details specific to report type.
1.
Select one or more types of resources for which you want to see data from among CPU,
memory, network I/O, and disk I/O.
Producing graphs and reports
73