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6 using capacity advisor with hp serviceguard, 7 support and other resources, A calculation assistance – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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Begin with a scenario..................................................................................................113
Choose the VM hosts or servers to load-balance..............................................................113
Step 1 of 3: Define the solution constraints.....................................................................114
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation................................................114
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions........................................................................114

Results: Automated load balancing of servers or VM hosts...........................................114

Automated solution finding: Workload stacking...................................................................116

Begin with a scenario..................................................................................................116
Choose the workloads to stack......................................................................................116
Step 1 of 3: Stack the specified workloads onto servers....................................................116
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation................................................117
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions........................................................................117

Results: Automated workload stacking.......................................................................118

Getting more detail..........................................................................................................118

6 Using Capacity Advisor with HP Serviceguard............................................119

Using Serviceguard to migrate Integrity VM guests....................................................................119
Data collection in a Serviceguard environment.........................................................................120

7 Support and other resources....................................................................121

Contacting HP......................................................................................................................121
New and changed information in this edition...........................................................................121
Related information...............................................................................................................121

Related technical papers...................................................................................................122

A Calculation assistance............................................................................123

Cost calculation....................................................................................................................123

Cost per kilowatt-hour.......................................................................................................123

Cooling calculation...............................................................................................................123

Cooling multiplier ...........................................................................................................123

Adjusting for platform changes...............................................................................................123

Memory multiplier............................................................................................................124

Adjusting for change in a workload........................................................................................124

CPU workload multiplier...................................................................................................125
Memory workload multiplier..............................................................................................125
Network I/O workload multiplier.......................................................................................125
Disk I/O workload multiplier.............................................................................................126
Determining estimated utilization assumptions for a workload................................................126

Adjusting for virtualization changes.........................................................................................127

CPU Virtualization Overhead %.........................................................................................128

CPU Virtualization Overhead %....................................................................................128

Hypervisor memory overhead............................................................................................128

Hypervisor memory overhead.......................................................................................128
Doing the math for hypervisor memory overhead.............................................................129

HP Virtual Machine................................................................................................129
VMware ESX 3......................................................................................................129
VMware vSphere....................................................................................................129
Microsoft Hyper-V...................................................................................................129

Power calibration calculations................................................................................................130

Determining idle/max values for non-Blade servers .............................................................130
Determining idle/max values for Blade servers....................................................................130

P-class HP Blades and HP Blade system sizer:..................................................................131
C-class HP Blades and HP Blade system sizer:.................................................................131

B Command reference...............................................................................133

capcustombenchmark(1M).....................................................................................................134
capcustombenchmark (4).......................................................................................................136

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