HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

By default, Virtualization Manager Workload view shows workloads at the operating system,
PSET, or FSS group level. This means that all of the processes running in each operating system
are treated as a single workload unless gWLM PSETs or FSS groups are in place, in which case
the utilization data is available at finer levels of granularity. In situations where resource uti-
lization tracking is desired at finer levels of granularity without the use of PSETS or FSS groups,
Virtualization Manager allows a workload definition to be created and deployed for any set of
executables or users on a system. This workload definition provides the ability to monitor the
real-time resource utilization as well as the collection of historical data.
Figure 17-12 shows the screen that allows Virtualization Manager workloads to be defined.
Using this screen, the workload is assigned a name and description along with the users and ex-
ecutables that constitute the workload. After creating the workload definition, Virtualization
Manager System and Workload views display the workload and its resource utilization. It is im-
portant to understand that these workload definitions provide only real-time and historical
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Figure 17-11 Virtualization Manager Workload View