HP Insight Capacity Advisor 6.0 Software: User Guide

With percentage of time limits..............................................................................................29
Scope of utilization limits...........................................................................................................29
Adjusting power...................................................................................................................................30
Power cap data.................................................................................................................................30
Automating solution generation: HP Smart Solver..............................................................................31
HP Smart Solver: Types of solutions...............................................................................................31
Determining trends in Capacity Advisor.............................................................................................31
Aggregation of points in business interval bins..............................................................................32
Choosing an appropriate business interval...............................................................................32
Exclusion of data points..................................................................................................................32
Factors that affect data validity..................................................................................................32
Linear regression.............................................................................................................................33
Error analysis...................................................................................................................................33
Forecasting growth...............................................................................................................................33
The forecast model hierarchy..........................................................................................................33
Forecast model attributes................................................................................................................34
4 Planning with Capacity Advisor.................................................................................35
Getting ready........................................................................................................................................35
Task: Understand current resource usage............................................................................................35
Task: Plan server consolidation.............................................................................................................36
Understanding the consolidation task............................................................................................36
Example consolidation: Stacking applications on an existing server........................................36
Step 1: Determine which systems to consolidate..................................................................37
Step 2: Create a scenario.......................................................................................................37
Step 3: Edit the scenario........................................................................................................38
Automating the consolidation task.................................................................................................46
Example consolidation: Automating stacking on a “what-if” server........................................47
Step 1: Determine which systems to consolidate..................................................................47
Step 2: Create a scenario.......................................................................................................47
Step 3: Edit the scenario........................................................................................................47
Task: Estimating the effect of adding or moving processors................................................................50
Task: Determining where to put a workload using automated solution finding.................................51
Example: Determining where to put a workload............................................................................51
5 Procedures....................................................................................................................53
Accessing Capacity Advisor.................................................................................................................53
Gathering data for Capacity Advisor...................................................................................................53
Impact of data collection on managed system performance...........................................................54
Data collection options....................................................................................................................54
First data collection (or the automated nightly collection).............................................................56
Interpreting task results...................................................................................................................56
Error notification on the standard out tab.................................................................................57
Scheduling a data collection............................................................................................................57
Modifying a collection schedule......................................................................................................58
Removing a collection schedule......................................................................................................59
Updating collected data...................................................................................................................59
Updating collected data on all systems......................................................................................59
Updating collected data on selected systems.............................................................................60
Updating data displayed in a profile viewer.............................................................................60
Collecting data without using an agent..........................................................................................60
Listing systems currently in the configuration file....................................................................60
Setting advanced options in the agentless data collection file...................................................60
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