HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual
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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 the Matrix Operating Environment for 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 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 Systems
Insight Manager.
Prerequisites
•
You must be logged in to Matrix Operating Environment (see
).
•
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 9 To access a profile viewer from the Optimize menu
This procedure gives you access to view historic resource utilization on a real system in your
network.
1.
Select Optimize
→Capacity Planning→View Profile...
The target selection wizard opens.
2.
Select one system to view and click Apply. (For information on a typical task progression in
Systems Insight Manager, see “Creating a Task” in the HP Systems Insight Manager Help.
3.
Verify the target system and click Run Now.
The profile viewer opens.
At this point, you have the option to calibrate power settings and edit I/O capacity.
NOTE:
When no data has been collected
If no data exists in the Capacity Advisor database for the selected system, and the system is
licensed to work with Capacity Advisor, check that the data collection configuration is correct
and that the data collection service is running. See HP Matrix Operating Environment Getting
Started Guide for more information.
Procedure 10 To access a profile viewer from the Matrix OE Visualization tab
This procedure gives you access to view historic resource utilization on a real system in your
network.
1.
Select Tools
→HP Matrix OE visualization...
The Visualization tab displays discovered systems.
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