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Table 16 Units and Terminology (continued)

Table 19 Data collection for memory utilization by platform (continued)

Collected From

Calculation

Platform

Memory used by the users + memory
used by the system + cache memory

Microsoft Windows

HP Virtual Machine
Management Pack (VMM)

Imported as is

Proliant VM Host
and VMs

sys$getrmi

system service

(RMI$_USERPAGES) and

Total memory used by user and system
processes.

OpenVMS

Sys$getsyi

(syi$_PhysicalPages)

The ability of an application and operating system to split processing between processors or
cores, thereby enabling parallel computing.

multithreading

Measured in Mb/s (10^6 bits, megabits per second).
Each sample represents an average reading over the past 5 minutes. These measurements are
obtained and calculated in the following manner:

Table 20 Data collection for network I/O bandwidth utilization by platform

network I/O
bandwidth utilization

Collected from

Calculation

Platform

MIB system

Total bytes transferred during the interval

HP-UX

proc/net/dev

Total bytes transferred during the interval

Linux

WMI counter

Total bytes transferred out during the interval

Microsoft Windows

HP Virtual Machine
Management Pack
(VMM)

Imported as is

Proliant VM Host and
VMs

sys$qio

system

service (GETSTATS)

Total bytes transferred during the interval.

OpenVMS

Counters are sampled at the start and end of each interval.

The system-name.OTHER workload is used to account for all processes on a system that do
not match any user-defined workloads. For more information, see

Workloads

“Workloads” in

OTHER workload

visualization help. On some Capacity Advisor displays, data is not available for this .OTHER
workload.

Component that plugs into a processor socket. A processor can contain more than one core.

processor

The packaging of one or more processors in a unit that connects to a single socket on the system
bus.

processor module

The system board socket to which a processor is attached.

processor socket

A compensating factor that Capacity Advisor uses to adjust needed resources when analyzing
a move from one platform to another.

scaling multiplier

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Units and terminology