HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

handled by the target system, you should also examine other system resources to ensure that
memory and I/O resources will be able to handle the consolidated load.
The graphs and data provided in the Capacity Planning reporting facilities are extensive.
These reports provide a wealth of information that is based on historic data and workload-
specific baselines. The reports can also be built from hypothetical systems and workloads. As a
result of this combination of historic data and fine tuning, the models generated by the Capac-
ity Advisor are highly accurate and reliable.
From the experiment performed in this example scenario it is clear that the three workloads
can be safely combined to a single hardware nPartition. This will release one-third of the com-
puting resources for other workloads and will result in higher utilization of the hardware in the
consolidated environment. In addition, fewer operating system images will be required to host
the workloads; this translates into lower system administration costs to keep the operating sys-
tems up to date and running properly.
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Figure 18-19 Capacity Advisor Workload Consolidation Report