Tandem Capacity Model (TCM) Manual

Changes to the 522695-007 Manual
• Replaced most of the figures to show Excel 2007 screens and made the appropriate updates
to the descriptions.
• Changed prequisite manuals under “Related Information” (page 16).
• Indicated, under “Functions and Features” (page 18), that both single-core and multi-core
processors are supported.
• Under “Understanding the Application” (page 21), changed UPDT to UPD.
• Updated the file name of the MeasTCM softdoc under “Installing MeasTCM on the Host”
(page 26)
• Added Excel 2007 and Windows 7 to Table 1 (page 25).
• Updated the list of environmental entries in the CNTLFILE (see “Environmental Entries” (page 40))
• Updated the list of CPUs under “CONVERTTO Entry” (page 41).
• Updated the “CPUFACTOR Entry” (page 42).
• Deleted the obsolete CLXTYPE entry.
• Added the optional “NUMTMFTRAIL Entry” (page 44) to support multiple TMF audit trails.
• Updated the “DISKCONVERTTO Entry” (page 44) to support SAS disks, HP XP disks, and
write cache enable.
• Updated the “DISKFACTOR Entry” (page 46) to support SAS disks and HP XP disks and added
an example showing the CLIM controller type.
• Added the “ACTUALDISK51 Entry” (page 52) for SAS disks associated with subtype 51.
• Added the “ACTUALDISK52 Entry” (page 52) for HP XP disks associated with subtype 52.
• Added new entries for OSS, SQLMP and SQLMX to Figure 8: PCAT Template File (page 55)
in Chapter 3.
• Updated “TITLE Statements” (page 58) and the process category types and descriptions table.
Added new title entries for OSS, SQLMP and SQLMX category types.
• Updated the Figure 44: “Capacity Baseline—Actual Screen” (page 138) in Chapter 9 and
modified its fields and their descriptions.
• Updated the Figure 45: “Consumption Model” (page 141) in Chapter 9 and modified its fields
and their descriptions.
• Updated the Figure 46: “Planning Timeline Model” (page 145) in Chapter 9 and and modified
its fields and their descriptions.
• Updated the Figure 48: “CPU Factors Screen” (page 150) in Chapter 9 and updated text to
read that the rightmost column is read-only and displays the IPU count for multi-core processors.
• Added new error messages and changed some existing error messages in Appendix B:
MeasTCM Error Messages (page 191).
Changes to the 522695-006 Manual
• Supported release statements have been updated to include J-series RVUs.
• Updated Template Control File under Customizing Your Process Category Control File.
• Updated the list of CPUs under CONVERTTO Entry.
• Updated the list of CPUs under CPUFACTOR Entry.
• Updated the list of disk model numbers under DISKCONVERTTO Entry.
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