HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

you can make more informed decisions about re-configuring your servers to improve the quality
of service or maintain it with a more efficient configuration.
Capacity Advisor allows you to size your system with more precision. This sizing is not based on
a simple peak utilization value, but on knowing the answers to questions such as whether your
system is more than 70% busy for an unacceptable percentage of the time.
For specific descriptions of each field shown on the user interface screens, click the on the screen.
Table 23 Checklist — Estimating the effect of adding processors
Related Procedure(s)Task
• “Creating an historic utilization report” (page 51)
Determine the current quality of service for a desired
metric for systems under consideration. (See also “Task:
Understand current resource usage” (page 131).)
• “Creating a planning scenario” (page 65)
Create a planning scenario that includes the systems to
which you would like to add processors.
• “Editing a system” (page 74)
Simulate adding processors on selected systems.
• “Creating a scenario utilization report” (page 52)
Evaluate new quality of service.
Table 24 Checklist — Estimating the effect of moving processors
Related Procedure(s)Task
• “Creating an historic utilization report” (page 51)
Determine the current quality of service for a desired
metric for systems under consideration. (See also “Task:
Understand current resource usage” (page 131).)
• “Creating a planning scenario” (page 65)
Create a planning scenario that includes the systems that
could exchange processors.
• “Editing a system” (page 74)
Simulate moving processors from donor systems to receiver
systems.
• “Creating a scenario utilization report” (page 52)
Evaluate new quality of service.
Task: Determining where to put a workload using automated solution
finding
Adding a new application or set of applications to an existing server environment requires careful
planning. Deciding where to add the new workload can be challenging; can it be placed on an
existing server, or is a new system required? With Capacity Advisor, the planning can be based
on real data and realistic modeling of the results of adding a new workload to the current
environment.
Prerequisites
• You should be familiar with Capacity Advisor operations (see “Procedures” (page 37)).
• You must be logged in to Matrix Operating Environment. (See “Accessing Capacity Advisor”
(page 37).)
• You must have already collected data on the systems of interest (see “Gathering data for
Capacity Advisor” (page 37)).
For specific descriptions of each field shown on the user interface screens, click the on the screen.
Task: Determining where to put a workload using automated solution finding 147