HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1 Software: User Guide

Creating a historical utilization data report

To use HP Insight Capacity Advisor software to create a historical utilization report that includes

data for the target workloads, systems, complexes, or scenarios you specify, select the

Tools→Capacity Advisor Historic Report menu item from the VM Manager menu bar. This

menu item is available only when you use VM Manager with Insight Dynamics; it is not available

when using VM Manager through HP SMH. Before creating a report, you must have collected

data on the systems of interest (see “Enabling collection of utilization data” (page 111)).

HP Insight Capacity Advisor software reports provide information about utilization and allocation

data that have been collected and analyzed. This facility gives you the flexibility of analyzing

and showing data collected over specified time periods. A wizard allows you to set a variety of

parameters to determine the time periods and systems for data collection and analysis. The report

can be browsed (the screen is presented in a new browser window) and saved. In contrast, the

View→Capacity Advisor Data... menu item gives a snapshot of utilization that's more limited

to the current, most recent time period.

Capacity Advisor collects data for the following resources or targets: systems, workloads,

complexes, and scenarios. For these targets, Capacity Advisor provides utilization information