HP Insight Capacity Advisor 6.0 Software: User Guide

Choose the systems to consolidate...........................................................................................106
Step 1 of 3: Define the destination system(s) and attributes....................................................106
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation.......................................................107
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..................................................................................107
Results: Automated consolidation to VMs.........................................................................107
Automated solution finding: Load balance of servers or VM hosts .............................................108
Begin with a scenario................................................................................................................109
Choose the VM hosts or servers to load-balance.....................................................................109
Step 1 of 3: Define the solution constraints..............................................................................109
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation.......................................................110
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..................................................................................110
Results: Automated load balancing of servers or VM hosts...............................................110
Automated solution finding: Workload stacking..........................................................................111
Begin with a scenario................................................................................................................111
Choose the workloads to stack.................................................................................................112
Step 1 of 3: Stack the specified workloads onto servers...........................................................112
Step 2 of 3: Set level of effort for Smart Solver calculation.......................................................113
Step 3 of 3: View Smart Solver solutions..................................................................................113
Results: Automated workload stacking..............................................................................113
Getting more detail........................................................................................................................114
6 Using Capacity Advisor with HP Serviceguard......................................................115
Using Serviceguard to migrate HP Integrity VM guests....................................................................115
Data collection in a Serviceguard environment..................................................................................116
7 Support and other resources....................................................................................117
Contacting HP.....................................................................................................................................117
New and changed information in this edition....................................................................................117
Related information............................................................................................................................118
Related technical papers................................................................................................................118
A Calculation assistance..............................................................................................119
Cost calculation...................................................................................................................................119
Cost per kilowatt-hour...................................................................................................................119
Cooling calculation.............................................................................................................................119
Cooling multiplier.........................................................................................................................119
Adjusting for platform changes..........................................................................................................119
Memory multiplier........................................................................................................................120
Adjusting for change in a workload...................................................................................................120
CPU workload multiplier..............................................................................................................120
Memory workload multiplier........................................................................................................121
Network I/O workload multiplier.................................................................................................121
Disk I/O workload multiplier........................................................................................................121
Determining estimated utilization assumptions for a workload..................................................121
Adjusting for virtualization changes..................................................................................................123
CPU Virtualization Overhead %....................................................................................................123
CPU Virtualization Overhead %..............................................................................................124
Hypervisor memory overhead......................................................................................................124
Hypervisor memory overhead.................................................................................................124
Doing the math for hypervisor memory overhead..................................................................124
HP Virtual Machine............................................................................................................124
VMware ESX 3.....................................................................................................................124
VMware vSphere (ESX 4)....................................................................................................125
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