HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

While values for the selected model and server series are supplied in drop-down selectors from
which you can choose, you will need to supply realistic values for network and disk I/O capacity
that reflect your environment.
Lastly, you will need to supply realistic values for power consumption for the server model selected.
You can use HP power calculators to help you determine what these values should be.
Run a utilization report that includes power selections
From the Planning tab, select Report→Create Utilization Reports...
The following parameters were used to create an example utilization report on the initial scenario:
• Utilization Summary and Utilization Details
• Power Summary and Power Details
• Resources Utilization for CPU, Memory and Power
• Both scales (Absolute Utilization and Percent of Allocation)
• Cost/kwh of 0.09 USD (U.S. dollars)
• Cooling cost multiplier of .06
• Energy cost and reporting interval of “Day”
Task: Estimating potential power savings across a range of server models 151