HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

Figure 1 Capacity Advisor data collection infrastructure
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Scenario data is stored
automatically for continued
use in the Scenario Editor.
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The Data Collector gathers
data from the agentless
data files, the Utilization
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The Agentless Data
Collector Services run on
the Microsoft Windows
CMS and collect data Providers running on the
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Use the Scenario Editor to
manipulate the collectedmanaged nodes, and
from VMM and SSH.
from Windows managed
systems. data associated with
workloads and systems.
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You can import data (HP
OVPA and HP ICperf) into
Agentless data collected
by the Agentless Data
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Use a Profile Viewer to
examine a graphicalthe historical database for
analysis.
Collector Service is made
available to the Capacity
Advisor Data Collector.
display of the utilization of
a specific resource for a
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Automatic data conversion
occurs when importing specific workload or
system.
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The Utilization Provider
enables the operation of data into the Matrix OE
database.the Capacity Advisor Data
Collector.
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Use the Report Generator
to create reports for
understanding utilization.
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Historical data is stored
for use in Capacity
Advisor.
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HP Insight Control virtual
machine management
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Use the web browser to
work with Capacitydata is made available to
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The Utilization Calculator
uses historical utilizationthe Capacity Advisor Data
Collector.
Advisor and exploit its
features.data and scales, sums, or
converts it to approximate
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For Linux managed nodes,
agentless SSH is used to
collect utilization data.
actual or hypothetical
system utilization.
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Characteristics of
managed systems are
stored in the Matrix OE
database and used when
collecting utilization Data.
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