HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

Assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a scenario.....................................................76
Initially converting VM hosts to simulate a VMware DRS cluster...........................................77
Adding VM hosts to a converted cluster............................................................................77
Removing a VM host from a VMware DRS cluster..............................................................77
Removing a VMware DRS cluster from a scenario..............................................................78
Moving a virtual machine...................................................................................................78
Removing a system.............................................................................................................79
Editing network and disk I/O capacity.................................................................................79
Getting there................................................................................................................79
Setting the upper bound values.......................................................................................80
Working with workloads..........................................................................................................80
Introduction.......................................................................................................................80
Creating a workload..........................................................................................................80
Editing a workload.............................................................................................................81
Moving a workload............................................................................................................82
Move considerations......................................................................................................82
Parking a workload............................................................................................................84
Deleting a workload...........................................................................................................84
Working with power...............................................................................................................84
Calibrating power on actual systems....................................................................................85
Calibrating a single system.............................................................................................85
Calibrating multiple systems at once................................................................................87
Calibrating power within a scenario.....................................................................................88
Getting there................................................................................................................88
Calibrating a single system.............................................................................................88
Calibrating multiple systems at once................................................................................89
Automating time-consuming simulations.....................................................................................89
Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs........................................................90
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................90
Choose the systems to consolidate...................................................................................90
Step 1 of 3: Define the destination system(s) and attributes.................................................90
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................91
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................91
Results: Automated consolidation to VMs.....................................................................92
Automated solution finding: Load balance of servers or VM hosts ............................................93
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................93
Choose the VM hosts or servers to load balance...............................................................93
Step 1 of 3: Define the solution constraints.......................................................................94
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................94
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................94
Results: Automated load balancing of servers or VM hosts.............................................94
Automated solution finding: Workload stacking.....................................................................96
Begin with a scenario....................................................................................................96
Choose the workloads to stack........................................................................................96
Step 1 of 3: Stack the specified workloads onto servers......................................................96
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation..................................................97
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..........................................................................97
Results: Automated workload stacking.........................................................................98
Getting more detail............................................................................................................98
5 Using Capacity Analysis............................................................................99
Introduction............................................................................................................................99
Accessing Capacity Analysis..................................................................................................100
Exploring the Analysis tab.....................................................................................................100
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