HP Capacity Advisor 7.0 User Guide

Editing a scenario..............................................................................................................88
Controlling the data display................................................................................................88
Change the meter style selection.....................................................................................88
Change the data collection period by setting the data range..............................................88
Change the meter representation.....................................................................................89
Copying a scenario............................................................................................................90
Renaming a scenario..........................................................................................................90
Undo/edit/review applied what-if actions in a scenario..........................................................91
To view applied what-if actions.......................................................................................91
To edit applied what-if actions........................................................................................91
Modifying resource utilization values...........................................................................92
Deleting a scenario............................................................................................................92
Working with systems..............................................................................................................92
Creating a system..............................................................................................................93
Adding an existing system...................................................................................................94
Editing a system.................................................................................................................94
Changing VMs to be servers...............................................................................................95
Change VMs to server...................................................................................................95
Changing servers to be VMs (manually)................................................................................96
Change servers to be VMs.............................................................................................96
Assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a scenario.....................................................97
Initially converting VM hosts to simulate a VMware DRS cluster...........................................97
Adding VM hosts to a converted cluster............................................................................98
Removing a VM host from a VMware DRS cluster..............................................................98
Removing a VMware DRS cluster from a scenario..............................................................98
Moving a virtual machine...................................................................................................98
Removing a system.............................................................................................................99
Editing network and disk I/O capacity...............................................................................100
Getting there..............................................................................................................100
Setting the upper bound values.....................................................................................100
Working with workloads........................................................................................................100
Introduction.....................................................................................................................100
Creating a workload........................................................................................................100
Editing a workload...........................................................................................................101
Moving a workload..........................................................................................................102
Move considerations....................................................................................................102
Parking a workload..........................................................................................................104
Deleting a workload.........................................................................................................104
Working with power.............................................................................................................105
Calibrating power on actual systems..................................................................................105
Calibrating a single system...........................................................................................106
Calibrating multiple systems at once..............................................................................107
Calibrating power within a scenario...................................................................................108
Getting there..............................................................................................................108
Calibrating a single system...........................................................................................109
Calibrating multiple systems at once..............................................................................109
Automating time-consuming simulations...................................................................................109
Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs......................................................110
Begin with a scenario..................................................................................................110
Choose the systems to consolidate.................................................................................110
Step 1 of 3: Define the destination system(s) and attributes...............................................110
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation................................................111
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions........................................................................111
Results: Automated consolidation to VMs...................................................................112
Automated solution finding: Load balance of servers or VM hosts ..........................................113
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