HP Capacity Advisor 7.0 User Guide

Table 16 Units and Terminology (continued)
Table 19 Data collection for memory utilization by platform (continued)
Collected FromCalculationPlatform
Memory used by the users + memory
used by the system + cache memory
Microsoft Windows
HP Virtual Machine
Management Pack (VMM)
Imported as isProliant VM Host
and VMs
sys$getrmi system service
(RMI$_USERPAGES) and
Total memory used by user and system
processes.
OpenVMS
Sys$getsyi
(syi$_PhysicalPages)
The ability of an application and operating system to split processing between processors or
cores, thereby enabling parallel computing.
multithreading
Measured in Mb/s (10^6 bits, megabits per second).
Each sample represents an average reading over the past 5 minutes. These measurements are
obtained and calculated in the following manner:
Table 20 Data collection for network I/O bandwidth utilization by platform
network I/O
bandwidth utilization
Collected fromCalculationPlatform
MIB systemTotal bytes transferred during the intervalHP-UX
proc/net/devTotal bytes transferred during the intervalLinux
WMI counterTotal bytes transferred out during the intervalMicrosoft Windows
HP Virtual Machine
Management Pack
(VMM)
Imported as isProliant VM Host and
VMs
sys$qio system
service (GETSTATS)
Total bytes transferred during the interval.OpenVMS
Counters are sampled at the start and end of each interval.
The system-name.OTHER workload is used to account for all processes on a system that do
not match any user-defined workloads. For more information, see Workloads“Workloads” in
OTHER workload
visualization help. On some Capacity Advisor displays, data is not available for this .OTHER
workload.
Component that plugs into a processor socket. A processor can contain more than one core.processor
The packaging of one or more processors in a unit that connects to a single socket on the system
bus.
processor module
The system board socket to which a processor is attached.processor socket
A compensating factor that Capacity Advisor uses to adjust needed resources when analyzing
a move from one platform to another.
scaling multiplier
152 Units and terminology