HP Capacity Advisor 7.3 Update 1 User Guide

Creating a population report..........................................................................................56
Creating a trend report..................................................................................................56
Creating a power report................................................................................................57
Setting utilization limits............................................................................................................57
Setting global utilization limits.............................................................................................58
Adding a utilization limit................................................................................................58
Removing a utilization limit.............................................................................................58
Setting workload utilization limits.........................................................................................59
Adding a utilization limit................................................................................................59
Enabling or disabling the limit........................................................................................59
Removing a utilization limit.............................................................................................59
Setting scenario-wide utilization limits...................................................................................59
Adding a utilization limit................................................................................................59
Enabling or disabling the limit........................................................................................60
Removing a utilization limit.............................................................................................60
Setting scenario workload utilization limits.............................................................................60
Adding a utilization limit................................................................................................60
Enabling or disabling the limit........................................................................................60
Removing a utilization limit.............................................................................................60
Forecasting utilization..............................................................................................................61
Defining forecast models.....................................................................................................61
Accessing the Global Forecast Model..............................................................................61
Defining the Global Forecast Model............................................................................61
Accessing the forecast model for a workload or system......................................................62
Defining the forecast model for a workload or system....................................................62
Accessing the forecast model for a scenario......................................................................63
Accessing the forecast model for a workload within a scenario...........................................63
Defining a forecast model..............................................................................................64
Disabling a forecast model.............................................................................................64
Enabling a forecast model..............................................................................................64
Generating forecasts..........................................................................................................64
Viewing forecast data in a profile viewer..........................................................................64
Viewing forecast data in a utilization report......................................................................65
Working with scenarios...........................................................................................................65
Creating a planning scenario..............................................................................................65
Editing a scenario..............................................................................................................67
Controlling the data display................................................................................................67
Change the meter style selection.....................................................................................67
Change the data collection period by setting the data range..............................................67
Change the meter representation.....................................................................................68
Copying a scenario............................................................................................................69
Renaming a scenario..........................................................................................................69
Undo/edit/review applied what-if actions in a scenario..........................................................70
To view applied what-if actions.......................................................................................71
To edit applied what-if actions........................................................................................72
Modifying resource utilization values...........................................................................72
Deleting a scenario............................................................................................................72
Working with systems..............................................................................................................73
Creating a system..............................................................................................................73
Adding an existing system...................................................................................................74
Editing a system.................................................................................................................75
Changing VMs to be servers...............................................................................................75
Change VMs to server...................................................................................................75
Changing servers to be VMs (manually)................................................................................76
Change servers to be VMs.............................................................................................76
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