HP Capacity Advisor 7.2 User Guide

as measured for disk I/O, 25
as measured for memory, 24
as measured for network I/O, 24
as measured for power usage, 25
availability for use in Capacity Analysis dashboard,
100
collect for Capacity Advisor, 37
collect in Serviceguard cluster, 158
considerations in measuring resource utilization, 25
conversion, 17
export, 193
gap, 158
historical, 17
ICperf, 193
import, 193
incorrect, 163
invalid, 27
invalidating, 193
linear regression to calculate trend line, 34
measurement interval, 25
missing, 27, 158
old, 162
OVPA, 193
peaks, 15
power caps and HP hardware, 31
utilization, 11
data collection, 16
agentless, 12, 18
Capacity Advisor service, 39
differences between ICperf and Utilization Provider, 19
HP Serviceguard, 18
infrastructure, 16
menu options, 38
method comparison, 18
server resources, 24
solving problems, 40
supported configurations, 18
timing options, 38
Utilization Provider, 12, 18
data collection, Capacity Advisor impact on system
performance, 38
data collection, importing ICperf information, 38
data collection, importing OVPA information, 38
data collection, records not current, 45
data discrepancy
in Capacity Advisor, 45
data handling
for virtual machines, 23
data import
view results for HP ICperf system, 44
view results for HP OVPA system, 44
data normalization, 24
data range
changing in Profile Viewer, 48
modify for Capacity Advisor, 67
data retention period, 38
delay in refresh of system and workload configuration
data
associated issues in Capacity Advisor, 170
dependency
SSH and agentless data collection, 13
VMM and data collection, 13
WBEMcredentials and agentless data collection, 13
WMI and agentless data collection, 13
disk I/O
bandwidth utilization, 212
edit capacity in Capacity Advisor, 79
disk I/O capacity, 25
Disk I/O Utilization, 186
Disk I/O Workload Multiplier, 186
default value, 186
example, 186
documentation, 179
dynamic memory, and data collection in Capacity Advisor,
45
E
Edit Scenario
accessing Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer, 47
error
difference in workload associations to systems, 170
message explanation, 173
time synchronization, 162
when reusing a server name or IP address, 165
error analysis, 34
error, connecting to systems, 159
event notification
data collection errors, 40
example
adding a VM host to a scenario, 138
adding processor cores, 140
changing a utilization limit for a scenario, 141
consolidation candidates report, 215
creating a scenario, 133
determining where to put a workload, 148
determining which systems to consolidate, 133
editing a scenario, 134
estimating potential power savings, 149
making servers become virtual machines with automated
solution finding, 144
making servers become VMs manually, 138, 140
scenario comparison report, 53, 215
server consolidation, planning, 132, 143
exported data, 193
F
fixed interval, 48
forecast
viewing in an historic utilization report, 64
forecast model
attributes defined, 35
editing in Profile Viewer, 48
precedence table, 34
G
gap
data, 158
goals
234 Index