HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3 User Guide

Creating a historical utilization data report

To use HP Capacity Advisor to create a historical utilization report that includes data for the target

workloads, systems, complexes, or scenarios you specify, select the Tools→Capacity Advisor Historic

Report menu item from the Integrity Virtual Server Manager menu bar. This menu item is available

only when you use Integrity Virtual Server Manager with Matrix Operating Environment; it is not

available when using Integrity Virtual Server Manager through HP SMH. Before creating a report,

you must have collected data on the systems of interest (see “Enabling collection of utilization data”

(page 123)).

HP Capacity Advisor reports provide information about utilization and allocation data that have

been collected and analyzed. This facility gives you the flexibility of analyzing and showing data

collected over specified time periods. A wizard allows you to set a variety of parameters to

determine the time periods and systems for data collection and analysis. The report can be browsed

(the screen is presented in a new browser window) and saved. In contrast, the View→Capacity

Advisor Data... menu item gives a snapshot of utilization that's more limited to the current, most

recent time period.

Capacity Advisor collects data for the following resources or targets: systems, workloads, complexes,

and scenarios. For these targets, Capacity Advisor provides utilization information in the following