Extracting Resource Allocation Data for Chargeback in a HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity Servers

The Capacity Advisor component of VSE stores utilization data about workloads VSE for reporting
and planning purposes. Sets of historical data are called Profiles. You can start the Profile Viewer GUI
tool from HP SIM by clicking the Optimize tab and then selecting Capacity AdvisorÆView
Profile…, or from the Virtualization Manager screen by clicking any of the utilization bar graphs.
The Profile Viewer displays the historical data for a workload, partition, or server. A useful feature for
relating workloads to specific physical servers is the hierarchy selection box near the top of the viewer
page, as shown in the following figure. Scroll down the hierarchy to specify a workload. This displays
the utilization data for that workload, as shown in the following figure. The relevant data (Average)
appears below the graph, under Interval Metric Summary, in the Absolute Utilization (CPUs) column.
You can select either CPU or memory utilization; in the following figure, CPU is selected. Along with
the graph of utilization is a table of statistics that includes average utilization over the period of
interest.
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