HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

NOTE: While the default setting for a scenario is to recommend at least seven days of data
to use for analysis, one carefully selected day can be sufficient to simulate your desired
conditions; or you may need 30 days or more to reflect your business cycle. For best results,
obtain a data set that best reflects the business interval that you want to simulate.
5. Check the Summary and verify that the scenario name and selected systems have been entered
correctly.
6. Click Finish.
When finished creating a new scenario, the Edit Scenario screen automatically opens for editing
the new scenario (default behavior).
TIP:
To return to a scenario at a later time...
Should you be unable to edit the scenario immediately (or should you want to first make a copy
of the scenario to modify), you can find the scenario later by locating the name of the scenario in
the list presented on the Planning tab screen. Click the scenario name to open the Capacity Advisor
- Edit Scenario window for that scenario.
Related topic
• “Creating a planning scenario” (page 65)
Step 3: Edit the scenario
The systems included in the scenario are listed on the System tab of the scenario editor. The bar
meters in the table show the peak resource utilization from data collected for the current week (the
default setting). The following image shows three systems and their workloads.
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