HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

Snapshots of Capacity Advisor reports
Consolidation candidates report
The following image illustrates a portion of data shown in a consolidation candidates report when
CPU and memory resource utilization data are selected for inclusion. You can also select to see
data on network I/O and disk I/O in this report. Other data that would appear in this report:
average paging (pages/second).
Note that the data can be downloaded to a CSV file for import into a spreadsheet. Use the
spreadsheet to sort the data according to the attributes that you are most interested in.
Scenario comparison report
The following images provide clips from a report that compares three scenarios: one a collection
of physical servers and two consolidation solutions that illustrate changes that would occur after
moving the physical servers to VM hosts. These images are provided to illustrate some of the types
of information that the report contains for each scenario included in a scenario comparison report.
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