HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

Table 22 Checklist — Consolidating server loads onto a virtual machine using automated solution
finding (HP Smart Solver)
Related Procedure(s)Task
• “Creating a consolidation candidates report” (page 54)
Determine which systems to consolidate (both to
and from).
• “Creating a planning scenario” (page 65)
Create a planning scenario.
• “Creating an historic utilization report” (page 51)
• “Creating a cost allocation report” (page 55)
Run reports on the scenario systems.
(Include this step if you want to obtain a baseline
set of reports to compare your scenario changes
against.) See also “Task: Understand current
resource usage” (page 131).
• “Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs”
(page 90)
Edit the scenario copy:
• Set up the new VM host system(s).
• Make each system to be consolidated become
a VM.
• “Creating a scenario utilization report” (page 52)
Evaluate new quality of service.
• “Creating a cost allocation report” (page 55)
Estimate new cost allocation on the VM host.
Example consolidation: Automating stacking on a “what-if” server
Assume that you have a collection of legacy servers for which you are uncertain of historic resource
usage. You have collected enough resource utilization data for each of these servers to provide
good insights, and it is time to see if converting these application servers into VMs on fewer VM
hosts is a cost-effective choice that will use your resource pool more efficiently. You also want to
do the simulation with a virtualization technology and server model that you are thinking of
purchasing in the near future.
The steps referenced in the following titles are from the checklist in “Checklist — Consolidating
server loads onto a virtual machine using automated solution finding (HP Smart Solver)” (page 143).
Step 1: Determine which systems to consolidate
From the top menu bar, select Reports→Capacity Advisor→Create Consolidation Candidates
Report...
This is the same process discussed in “Step 1: Determine which systems to consolidate” (page 133)
of the manual consolidation example.
Related topic
• “Creating a consolidation candidates report” (page 54)
Step 2: Create a scenario
This is the same process discussed in “Step 2: Create a scenario” (page 133) of the manual
consolidation example.
When finished creating a new scenario, the Edit Scenario screen automatically opens for editing
the new scenario.
Task: Plan server consolidation 143