HP Capacity Advisor 7.0 User Guide

Move workloads between systems
Park workloads
Delete workloads
For scenarios themselves:
View and undo/redo scenario changes
Use the HP Smart Solver technology to perform:
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
Utilization data collection is at the heart of Capacity Advisor.
With 7.0 release, collection of resource usage data is managed by a service, rather than by a
scheduled task in the CMS. The service gathers data provided by the Utilization Provider and
native data collectors and normalizes it into 5–minute data points. The service starts automatically
on installation and runs constantly unless stopped — providing data for visualization of resource
usage on discovered systems and workloads and for capacity planning. When needed, the service
can be stopped or restarted on the CMS.
Data collection infrastructure
In the data collection infrastructure, each component plays a role, as shown in Figure 1 (page 14).
It all begins with data collection.
Figure 1 Capacity Advisor data collection infrastructure
14 Features