HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Getting Started Guide

the gray Insight Dynamics menu bar. Global Workload Manager improves both workload
performance and resource utilization in a shared compute environment. For servers partitioned
with nPartitions, virtual partitions, virtual machines, psets, or FSS groups, gWLM can do the
following:
• Monitor each application.
• Determine the CPU resources needed by each application.
• Automatically migrate CPU resources between partitions to where they are needed most.
This migration improves application performance by making more resources available to
the application at times of peak demand. In addition, migrating idle resources to the
applications that are busy increases processor utilization.
For more information about gWLM, see the HP Insight Global Workload Manager 6.0 Software: User
Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
HP Instant Capacity Manager
The Instant Capacity (iCAP) Manager is a web-based interface that can be used to monitor your
Instant Capacity environment. There are several pages available in iCAP Manager, including a
home page to provide an overview of the Instant Capacity resources available, a Global Instant
Capacity (GiCAP) group manager page to provide more insight into the group managers, and
detail pages for GiCAP groups and iCAP complexes and hosts.
You can get to iCAP Manager in either of the following ways:
• From the Virtualization Manager Visualization tab, click the iCAP technology link associated
with any managed system that has iCAP components, TiCAP capacity, or is a member of a
GiCAP group.
• Select Tools→Instant Capacity Manager from the Insight Dynamics menu bar.
For more information about iCAP Manager, see the iCAP Manager help.
Partition Manager
Partition Manager provides system administrators with a convenient graphical user interface to
configure and manage nPartitions on HP server systems. Using Partition Manager, you can
perform configuration tasks without having to remember commands and parameters. You select
nPartitions, cells, I/O chassis, or other components from the graphical display, then select an
action from a menu.
You can use Partition Manager to perform the following tasks:
• Create, modify, and delete nPartitions
• Examine the nPartition configuration of a complex
• Check the complex for potential configuration and hardware problems
• Manage hardware resources on the complex
For more information about Partition Manager, see the Partition Manager help.
Integrity Virtual Machines Manager
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) is the GUI that you can use from your
browser to manage Integrity VM resources. VM Manager allows you to create, configure, and
evaluate virtual machines, and to monitor and evaluate data and resources at the level of the
VM Host. You can view all of a VM Host's virtual machines and their assigned resources, and
you can view all resources assigned to a specific virtual machine or virtual switch. For example,
VM Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network and storage devices so
that you can view I/O data, including resource utilization information. VM Manager obtains
information about Integrity VM resources through Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
providers installed on the VM Host.
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