HP Insight Capacity Advisor 6.0 Software: User Guide

Viewing forecast data in a profile viewer..................................................................................83
Viewing forecast data in a utilization report.............................................................................83
Working with scenarios........................................................................................................................84
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Creating a planning scenario...........................................................................................................84
Editing a scenario............................................................................................................................85
Controlling the data display............................................................................................................86
Change the meter style selection................................................................................................86
Change the data collection period by setting the data range.....................................................86
Change the meter representation...............................................................................................87
Copying a scenario..........................................................................................................................87
Renaming a scenario........................................................................................................................88
Undo/edit/review applied what-if actions in a scenario.................................................................88
To view applied what-if actions.................................................................................................89
To edit applied what-if actions...................................................................................................89
Modifying resource utilization values..................................................................................89
Deleting a scenario..........................................................................................................................89
Working with systems..........................................................................................................................90
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Creating a system............................................................................................................................90
Adding an existing system..............................................................................................................91
Editing a system..............................................................................................................................92
Changing VMs to be servers............................................................................................................92
Change VMs to server................................................................................................................92
Changing servers to be VMs (manually).........................................................................................93
Change servers to be VMs..........................................................................................................93
Assigning VM hosts to a VMware DRS cluster in a scenario..........................................................93
Initially converting VM hosts to simulate a VMware DRS cluster............................................94
Adding VM hosts to a converted cluster...................................................................................94
Removing a VM host from a VMware DRS cluster...................................................................94
Removing a VMware DRS cluster from a scenario....................................................................95
Moving a virtual machine...............................................................................................................95
Removing a system..........................................................................................................................96
Editing network and disk I/O capacity...........................................................................................96
Getting there...............................................................................................................................96
Setting the upper bound values.................................................................................................96
Working with workloads......................................................................................................................97
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................97
Creating a workload........................................................................................................................97
Editing a workload..........................................................................................................................98
Moving a workload.........................................................................................................................99
Move considerations..................................................................................................................99
Parking a workload........................................................................................................................100
Deleting a workload......................................................................................................................100
Working with power...........................................................................................................................101
Calibrating power within Virtualization Manager........................................................................101
Calibrating a single system......................................................................................................102
Calibrating multiple systems at once.......................................................................................103
Calibrating power within a scenario.............................................................................................103
Getting there.............................................................................................................................104
Calibrating a single system......................................................................................................104
Calibrating multiple systems at once.......................................................................................105
Automating time-consuming simulations..........................................................................................105
Automated solution finding: System consolidation to VMs.........................................................105
Begin with a scenario................................................................................................................105
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