HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

Now, decide whether to let Capacity Advisor select the defaults for hypervisor overhead, or to
provide your own values. Click “More Information” for guidance on calculating hypervisor overhead.
Next, set the constraints for the solver:
CPU virtualization is set to 20%, as in the manual consolidation example. The default settings for
load balancing and maximum allowed invalid data are not changed.
Click Next to proceed to the next step.
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This screen gives you the opportunity to review the settings you have made thus far and to select
the level of effort for the Solver to operate within. The default setting is for maximum effort that the
Solver should expend to find the best solution.
Click OK to start the calculation.
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This screen shows the results of this Solver run:
Task: Plan server consolidation 145