HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide
HP Smart Solver informational messages..................................................................................178
10 Support and other resources...................................................................179
Information to collect before contacting HP...............................................................................179
How to contact HP................................................................................................................179
Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components....................................179
Subscription service..........................................................................................................179
Registering for software technical support and update service.....................................................179
How to use your software technical support and update............................................................180
HP authorized resellers..........................................................................................................180
Related information...............................................................................................................180
Related technical papers...................................................................................................181
Calculation assistance................................................................................183
Cost calculation....................................................................................................................183
Cost per kilowatt-hour.......................................................................................................183
Cooling calculation...............................................................................................................183
Cooling multiplier ...........................................................................................................183
Adjusting for platform changes...............................................................................................183
Memory multiplier............................................................................................................184
Adjusting for change in a workload........................................................................................184
CPU workload multiplier...................................................................................................185
Memory workload multiplier..............................................................................................185
Network I/O workload multiplier.......................................................................................185
Disk I/O workload multiplier.............................................................................................186
Determining estimated utilization assumptions for a workload................................................186
Adjusting for virtualization changes.........................................................................................187
CPU Virtualization Overhead %.........................................................................................187
CPU Virtualization Overhead %....................................................................................188
Hypervisor memory overhead............................................................................................188
Hypervisor memory overhead.......................................................................................188
Doing the math for hypervisor memory overhead.............................................................188
HP Virtual Machine................................................................................................188
VMware ESX 3......................................................................................................189
VMware vSphere....................................................................................................189
Microsoft Hyper-V...................................................................................................189
Power calibration calculations................................................................................................189
Determining idle/max values for non-Blade servers..............................................................190
Determining idle/max values for Blade servers....................................................................190
P-class HP Blades and HP Blade system sizer...................................................................190
C-class HP Blades and HP Blade system sizer:.................................................................191
Command reference..................................................................................193
capcustombenchmark(1M).....................................................................................................194
capcustombenchmark (4).......................................................................................................196
capovpaextract (1M).............................................................................................................197
capprofile (1M)....................................................................................................................199
capprofile (4).......................................................................................................................203
capagentlesscfg...................................................................................................................206
cappmpextract ....................................................................................................................208
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