HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

7. Click Finish to run the report.
4. Click the appropriate link to browse the report in a web browser or to save the report to the
location that you designate.
Creating a population report
1. Select Reports→Capacity Planning→Create Population Reports....
2. The Report Wizard opens on the Select Report Targets screen.
Select the systems, scenario, or collection for which you want the report, and select the data
range.
See Select targets and set date range for more information.
3. Select details specific to report type.
1. Optional. Select the operating system detail to be displayed in the report.
2. Optional. Select the processor information to be displayed in the report.
3. Optional. Select the cores per socket information to be displayed in the report.
4. Optional. Select the total cores per server information to be displayed in the report.
5. Optional. Select a different scale or graph size.
6. Click Next to view a confirmation page showing the report selections.
7. Click Finish to run the report.
4. Click the appropriate link to browse the report in a web browser or to save the report to the
location that you designate.
Creating a trend report
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1. Select Reports→Capacity Planning→Create Utilization Reports....
2. The Report Wizard opens on the Select Report Content screen.
Select the check box(es) for a trend report summary or a summary and details and click Next.
The Select Report Targets screen opens.
3. Select the collection, complex, systems, scenario, or workloads for which you want the report,
and select the data range.
See Select targets and set date range for more information.
4. Select details specific to report type.
a. Select one or more types of resources for which you want to see data from among CPU,
memory, network I/O, and disk I/O. (Power is not available when reporting trends only.)
b. Check the default graph size. The default size fits just within a letter-size page for printing.
If you prefer dimensions smaller or larger, use the drop-down to change width (in pixels).
If you prefer a different width-to-height proportion, use the Aspect Ratio drop down.
If you chose trend report details:
i. Select the Business Interval (default: one week).
Requiring higher percentages of valid points can make the business intervals analyzed
more meaningful, but can also reduce the number of business intervals available for
the analysis, making the overall analysis less useful.
ii. Select the minimum percentage of valid data points that must be present within the
period (default: 95%), called the Valid Threshold.
iii. Choose the data aggregation type (default: average), called Compute Trending of.
iv. Optional. Check the box to include error analysis.
c. Click Finish.
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