HP Capacity Advisor 7.3 Update 1 User Guide

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network data, 20
network I/O
bandwidth utlization, 219
edit capacity in Capacity Advisor, 80
network I/O capacity, 24
Network I/O Utilization, 190
Network I/O Workload Multiplier, 189, 190
default value, 189
example, 189
no data for managed node, 45
O
Offset Hours, 190
old data, 166
old dates, 166
operations
overview
Capacity Advisor scenarios, 65
Capacity Advisor systems, 73
OTHER workload, 219
out-of-memory, 171
overview
Capacity Advisor procedures, 37
OVPA data, 17
importing, 43
P
peak
data, 15
peak width, 15
peaks and sums, 25
percent of time
limit example, 30
percentage of allocation
defined, 30
performance
calculating for a virtual machine in a cluster, 39
planning
determining where to put a workload using automated
solution finding, 151
estimating potential power savings, 153
estimating the effect of adding or moving processors,
150
server consolidation, 135
with Capacity Advisor, 135
point aggregation
for trend calculation, 33
power
adjusting calibration, 31
calibrating for multiple systems in Capacity Advisor
scenario, 90
calibrating for multiple systems in Matrix OE, 88
calibrating for single system in Capacity Advisor
scenario, 89
calibrating for single system in Matrix OE visualization,
86
calibrating one system at a time, 90
calibration options in Capacity Advisor scenario, 86,
88, 90
initial calibration, 89
power cap
data in Capacity Advisor, 31
power consumption, 25
power settings
editing in Profile Viewer, 48
procedure
access Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer from Optimize
menu, 47
access Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer from
Visualization menu, 47
access Capacity AdvisorCapacity Advisor Profile Viewer
when editing a scenario, 48
accessing a scenario forecast model, 63
accessing global forecast model, 61
add global utilization limits in Capacity Advisor, 58
add scenario-wide utilization limits in Capacity Advisor,
59
add scenario-wide workload utilization limits in Capacity
Advisor, 60
add workload utilization limits in Capacity Advisor, 59
adding an existing system, 74
adding existing systems to a scenario, 74
adding VM hosts to an existing cluster, 78
ascertaining data collection period for set of servers,
45
assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a
scenario, 77
automated consolidation to VMs
choose destination systems, 91
choose systems to consolidate, 91
set level of effort, 92
view solutions, 92
automated load balance of servers
define constraints, 95
view solutions, 95
automated load balance of VM hosts
choose VM hosts to load balance, 94
define constraints, 95
view solutions, 95
automated load-balance of VM hosts
set level of effort, 95
automated workload stacking
choose workloads to stack, 97
open scenario, 97
set level of effort, 98
stack workloads, 97
view solutions, 98
automating finding solution for workload stacking, 97
automating finding solutions for system consolidation to
VMs, 91
calculating a virtualization consolidation ratio, 54
calibrating power for a single system in Matrix OE
visualization, 86
calibrating power within a scenario, 89
change the data range in Capacity Advisor, 68
change the meter bar calculation in a scenario, 68
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