HP Capacity Advisor 7.3 Update 1 User Guide
HP Smart Solver error messages.............................................................................................180
When available systems lack sufficient capacity...................................................................180
When the threshold for invalid data is exceeded..................................................................181
HP Smart Solver informational messages..................................................................................182
10 Support and other resources...................................................................183
Information to collect before contacting HP...............................................................................183
How to contact HP................................................................................................................183
Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components....................................183
Subscription service..........................................................................................................183
Registering for software technical support and update service.....................................................183
How to use your software technical support and update............................................................184
HP authorized resellers..........................................................................................................184
Related information...............................................................................................................184
Related technical papers...................................................................................................185
Calculation assistance................................................................................187
Cost calculation....................................................................................................................187
Cost per kilowatt-hour.......................................................................................................187
Cooling calculation...............................................................................................................187
Cooling multiplier ...........................................................................................................187
Adjusting for platform changes...............................................................................................187
Memory multiplier............................................................................................................188
Adjusting for change in a workload........................................................................................188
CPU workload multiplier...................................................................................................189
Memory workload multiplier..............................................................................................189
Network I/O workload multiplier.......................................................................................189
Disk I/O workload multiplier.............................................................................................190
Determining estimated utilization assumptions for a workload................................................190
Adjusting for virtualization changes.........................................................................................191
CPU Virtualization Overhead %.........................................................................................191
CPU Virtualization Overhead %....................................................................................192
Hypervisor memory overhead............................................................................................192
Hypervisor memory overhead.......................................................................................192
Doing the math for hypervisor memory overhead.............................................................192
HP Virtual Machine................................................................................................192
VMware ESX 3......................................................................................................193
VMware vSphere....................................................................................................193
Microsoft Hyper-V...................................................................................................193
Power calibration calculations................................................................................................193
Determining idle/max values for non-Blade servers..............................................................194
Determining idle/max values for Blade servers....................................................................194
P-class HP Blades and HP Blade system sizer...................................................................194
C-class HP Blades and HP Blade system sizer:.................................................................195
Command reference..................................................................................197
capcustombenchmark(1M).....................................................................................................198
capcustombenchmark (4).......................................................................................................200
capovpaextract (1M).............................................................................................................201
capprofile (1M)....................................................................................................................203
capprofile (4).......................................................................................................................207
capagentlesscfg...................................................................................................................210
cappmpextract ....................................................................................................................212
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