HP Virtual Server Environment Management for Integrity Version 4.0 Release Notes

• Network and disk I/O are now viewable within scenarios and used throughout Capacity
Advisor. The user is allowed to specify maximum expected data rates for network and disk
I/O, or default to maximum observed values.
• The HP Smart Solver allows system administrators to generate capacity planning information
in an automated fashion, thus saving the time and effort required to manually plan the
placement of workloads on systems. With HP Smart Solver you can automate the following:
— Server consolidation planning for deploying tens or hundreds of servers
— System and virtual machine consolidation
— Workload consolidation
— Load balance of servers or VM Hosts
You can constrain the solution by adjusting the following elements:
— Placement strategy
— Simulation interval
— Resources to be used (pre-existing and template-generated)
— Utilization limits for CPU, memory, and network and disk I/O
— Forecast growth-rate as a percentage when projecting into the future
• Headroom ratings have been added to the Move Workload and Move VM screens, to various
reports, and to the Smart Solver.
• System power has been added as a utilization and planning metric throughout Capacity
Advisor.
— Power utilization is displayed in the profile viewer, along with CPU, memory, network
and disk I/O statistics.
— Power is included in scenario planning and associated with what-if systems.
— Power can be estimated for all systems, based on an automatic calibration process for
systems that support power metering, and a manual calibration process for systems
that do not.
— A configuration checklist leads the user through the configuration of iLO and Insight
Power Manager for systems that support power metering to enable automatic power
calibration.
— The Power report provides in-depth power metrics that can be analyzed and manipulated
within a scenario. This allows a more valuable comparison of power utilization and
cost constraints. The metrics Energy, Energy Cost, and Power Estimation by average,
peak, and sustained peak values calculated monthly, quarterly, or yearly with totals
are shown on this report.
• Introduced the Capacity Advisor Scenario Comparison report, which provides a way to
easily compare different scenarios within a single table. The comparison report also provides
the ability to constrain CPU, memory, and power values for simulated configurations.
Estimates are based on actual resource utilization and are displayed graphically.
• Added the Extended Performance Management Pack, which allows data to be exported
from HP Performance Management Pack (PMP) to the Capacity Advisor database and which
normalizes the date interval of collected data to Capacity Advisor defaults.
• Added support for localization of the Capacity Advisor user interface and help in Japanese.
Global Workload Manager
• gWLM can now predict when to allocate resources to certain workloads. If a workload has
regularly occurring patterns of CPU usage, gWLM attempts to provide the workload with
additional resources when they will be needed. Previously, gWLM would provide resources
only in response to actual increased need.
• gWLM can now form an SRD from members of a Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) group.
GiCAP version 8.02.01 is required. You must include each GiCAP group member in the
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