HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Getting Started Guide

• From the Systems Insight Manager System and Event Collections list in the left-hand navigation
area, expand the All VSE Resources collection by clicking its icon, then choose a subset
such as nPartitions.
• Create a custom Systems Insight Manager collection whose default view is set to “VSE”. Select
this collection to start Matrix OE visualization. This is described in more detail in Customizing
Systems Insight Manager Collections and Home Page. That section also describes how to
customize Systems Insight Manager to display Matrix OE visualization automatically as soon
as Systems Insight Manager starts.
When you start the Matrix OE visualization from any of the methods listed above, a splash screen
displays as the Matrix OE visualization loads.
NOTE: Do not create multiple browser windows in the same session by using Ctrl-N or File→New
Window in Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox. This results in the same session running in both windows
and causes errors in the Matrix OE visualization. Similarly, do not create multiple tabs by using
Ctrl-T orFile→New Tab, which also causes problems. You can, however, start multiple browsers
from the desktop icon or the Start button. In this case, a different session can run in each browser,
which will not cause Matrix OE visualization problems.
Matrix OE tabs
Matrix Operating Environment provides four tabs to move among the capabilities offered by Matrix
OE visualization, Capacity Advisor, and Global Workload Manager:
• Visualization tab – View a visual representation of all managed servers, their relationships to
each other or to an enclosure, and resource usage data for each server. You can easily
navigate to the management application for each server technology. For more information,
see the online help accessible from the Visualization tab.
• Workload tab – View workloads in association with their servers and their utilization settings,
within a compact table format. See the online help accessible from the Workload tab.
• Shared Resource Domain tab – View and manage Shared Resource Domains (SRDs) using HP
Global Workload Manager (gWLM). gWLM allows you to centrally define resource-sharing
policies that you can use across multiple HP servers. For more information, see the online help
accessible from the Shared Resource Domain tab and see the HP Global Workload Manager
User Guide.
• Planning tab – View computing resource utilization data and create usage scenarios using
Capacity Advisor. For more information, see the online help accessible from the Planning tab
and see the HP Capacity Advisor User Guide.
Matrix OE menu bar
The Matrix OE menu bar provides convenient access to the Matrix OE tools and actions after
clicking a Matrix OE tab for a given application.
To perform an action on a system or compartment, select its checkbox, then choose the menu
selection from the Matrix OE menu bar. Some menu selections (such as Create→Workload
Definition...) do not require you to select a system first.
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