HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor: User's Guide

Table of Contents

About This Document

Intended Audience

Typographic Conventions

Related Information

Publishing History

HP Encourages Your Comments

1 Introduction

Setup Considerations

Licensing Requirements

Installation

Disk Space Requirements

Credentials

Dependencies

2 Features

Data Collection

Scheduling Data Collection

Experimentation

Sizing for Service Level Objectives

Modeling Considerations

Capacity Advisor Commands and Manpages

3 Key Capacity Advisor Concepts

Utilization Monitor, Calculator, and Simulator

Peaks and Sums

Capacity Planning Goals

Quality of Service

Sampling Interval

Headroom

4 Basic Operations

Basic Operations

Accessing Capacity Advisor

Collecting Data

First Data Collection

Modifying a Collection Schedule

Removing a Collection Schedule

Updating Collected Data

Error Notification on the Standard Out Tab

Producing Graphs and Reports

Overview of Graphs and Reports

Accessing a Profile Viewer

Generating a Report

Working with Scenarios

Overview of Working with Scenarios

Creating a Scenario

Editing a Scenario

Copying a Scenario

Renaming a Scenario

View or Modify Changes

Controlling Scenario Behavior

Deleting a Scenario

Working with Systems

Overview of Working with Systems

Creating a System

Adding an Existing System

Editing a System

Moving a Virtual Machine

Removing a System

Working with Workloads

Overview of Working with Workloads

Creating a Workload

Editing a Workload

Moving a Workload

Parking a Workload

Removing a Workload

Importing OVPA Data

5 Planning with Capacity Advisor

Getting Ready

Task: Planning Server Consolidation

Planning Server Consolidation

Example: Consolidating to an Existing Server: Stacking Programs

Task: Estimating the Effect of Adding/Moving Processors

Planning to Move/Add Processors

Task: Determining Where to Put a New Workload

Planning for a New Workload

6 Capacity Advisor with Serviceguard

Using Capacity Advisor with Serviceguard

Defining a Workload for Where the Package Usually Runs

Defining a Workload for Every Package/node Pair

Defining a Workload per Package and Manually Moving Workloads

Command Reference

capcollect(1M) - Collect Capacity Advisor data from systems to examine workload scenarios, do capacity planning, and store the data on the CMS.

capprofile(1M) - Import, export, display, invalidate and remove Capacity Advisor data for workloads or systems.

capprofile (4) - Format of Capacity Advisor import and export files.

capovpaextract(1M) - Export OpenView Performance Agent (OVPA) system data from the specified managed node and import the data into Capacity Advisor.

vseinitconfig(1M) - Configure or unconfigure the VSE Management Software

A Units of Measurement

Capacity Advisor Units

B Data Collection Error Messages

Error Messages

Glossary

Index