HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

The screen shown in Figure 18-7 provides a mechanism to modify a workload’s historic pro-
file. This can be performed in one of two ways. First, all data points over a given threshold can
be marked as invalid. This operation flattens the peaks of a workload that are unusually high. The
second way to modify a workload’s historic profile is to mark data as invalid during specific date
ranges. Using this mechanism, time periods that experience unusually high or low resource con-
sumption can be marked as invalid to prevent the data from falsely affecting capacity-planning
scenarios.
In this example, there is no need to mark data as invalid. However, the screen illustrates how
data points between April 17th and April 25th would be marked as invalid for the workload if
the user clicked the OK button.
The HP Virtual Server Environment
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Figure 18-6 Capacity Advisor Historic Profile Viewer