Basic Operations

HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor provides a collection of utilities for the capacity planner. Using it involves the basic operations listed below.

In order to use Capacity Advisor, you must:

Access the product (see Accessing Capacity Advisor).
Gather data (see Collecting Data).

Once you have accessed the product and gathered data, you can use Capacity Advisor to:

View graphs and review data. Tasks include:
- Accessing the Profile Viewer; the Profile Viewer provides a graphical display and a tabular summary of resource utilization. See Accessing a Profile Viewer.
- Generating and reviewing reports. Reports can combine information from multiple systems and workloads. See Generating a Report.
Work with scenarios (simulations that allow you to ask "what if?" questions based on real data). Tasks include:
- Creating scenarios. You can select the systems to use in the scenario, name it, and provide a short description. See Creating a Scenario.
- Editing scenarios. You can adjust the simulation parameters (such as the interval, beginning and ending dates), move workloads and virtual machines, and create and edit systems. See Editing a Scenario.
- Copying a scenario, allowing you to start with an existing scenario to build a new one. See Copying a Scenario
- Renaming a scenario. See Renaming a Scenario
- Viewing or modifying changes to a scenario. See View or Modify Changes.
- Controlling the behavior of a scenario by modifying the time interval and reported metric. See Controlling Scenario Behavior.
- Deleting old scenarios. See Deleting a Scenario.
Work with systems within a scenario. Systems can be real systems or pure simulations that represent new systems, and can be either physical hardware or virtual systems. Tasks include:
- Creating systems. See Creating a System.
- Adding an existing system. See Adding an Existing System.
- Editing systems. See Editing a System.
- Moving virtual machines. See Moving a Virtual Machine.
- Removing systems. See Removing a System.
Work with workloads within a scenario. Workloads represent applications running on systems and can be moved across systems within a scenario. Tasks include:
- Creating workloads. See Creating a Workload.
- Editing workloads. See Editing a Workload.
- Moving workloads. See Moving a Workload.
- Parking workloads. Parking a workload removes the effects of the workload from the scenario, without losing the definition of the workload. See Parking a Workload.
- Removing workloads. See Removing a Workload.

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