HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

IMPORTANT: For specific descriptions of each field or summary table on the user interface
screens, click the help topic link on the software screen for the task.
TIP: For lists of all menu options for Capacity Advisor features, see “Menus & tabs” in Capacity
Advisor Help.
Creating a planning scenario
Scenarios are used to model system behavior by performing “what-if” operations based on collected
data. The first step in using scenarios is creating one.
Prerequisites
• You must be logged in to Matrix Operating Environment. (See “Accessing Capacity Advisor”
(page 37).)
• You must have already collected data on the systems of interest (see “Gathering data for
Capacity Advisor” (page 37)).
• The systems you want to include in the scenario must be licensed for Capacity Advisor and
you must be authorized on all of them (see HP Matrix Operating Environment Getting Started
Guide).
Procedure 27 Starting a scenario
• Select Optimize→Capacity Planning→Create Scenario... from the top menu bar.
The Create Scenario wizard opens to an Introduction screen containing explanatory information
on how to interpret the icons that are used to indicate progress through the wizard and how
to navigate the wizard.
Procedure 28 Identifying the scenario
1. Click Scenario Name in the left navigation column to open the Enter Scenario Name and
Description screen.
2. Required. Type a unique Name.
3. Type a short description in the Description field.
TIP: As the number of scenarios grows, the description field can help you to differentiate
similarly named scenarios.
4. Optional. You can de-select the check box for opening a scenario editing session after
completing scenario creation. When you un-check this box, you will return to the scenario list
page upon completing the scenario creation.
The Edit Scenario window on Mozilla Firefox:
In the case where the Edit Scenario window is already open, but hidden beneath other windows
when you create a new scenario, it is not obvious that the window has refreshed with your
new scenario information. This can occur when using Mozilla Firefox with multiple windows
open on your display. To more easily access the refreshed window, set Firefox to allow
Javascript to raise or lower windows. Then, when you create a new scenario, the pre-existing
Edit Scenario window will rise to the forefront of the display.
5. Click Next to proceed to the Add Systems to Analyze screen, or click Systems in the left
navigation column.
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