HP Insight Capacity Advisor 6.0 Software: User Guide

Automated server consolidation to virtual machines◦

◦ Automated load balancing of existing VM hosts or existing servers

◦ Automated workload stacking (consolidation)

— Create scenario comparison reports

Data collection

Data collection is at the heart of Capacity Advisor and a task is created during configuration to

automatically collect utilization data from all resources licensed for Insight Dynamics and

discovered by HP Systems Insight Manager software (HP SIM). (See “First data collection (or

the automated nightly collection)” (page 56).)

HP recommends that once you have become familiar with using Capacity Advisor, you should

review this scheduled task to understand what it is doing and make sure that it fits your needs.

This automated data collection task gathers historical data from all your systems so that the data

is available when you need it for analysis.

Data collection infrastructure

In the data collection infrastructure, each component plays a role, as shown in Figure 2-1. It all

begins with data collection.

Figure 2-1 Capacity Advisor Data Collection Infrastructure

Scenario data is stored

automatically for

The Data Collector gathers

data from the agentless

The Agentless Data

Collector Services run on

the CMS and collect data continued use in the

Scenario Editor.

data files, the Utilization

Providers running on thefrom Microsoft Windows

managed nodes, and

from VMM.

and Linux managed

systems.

Use the Scenario Editor to

manipulate the collected

data associated with

workloads and systems.

You can import data (HP

OVPA and HP PMP) into

Agentless data collected by

the Agentless Data

Collector Service is made the historical database for

analysis.

Use a Profile Viewer to

examine a graphical

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