HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor: HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor User's Guide Version A.03.00.00

Table of Contents

About This Document

Intended Audience

Typographic Conventions

Related Information

Publishing History

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1 Introduction

Setup Considerations

Licensing Requirements

Installation

Upgrades and Reinstallation

Collection Agents

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

Trends and Forecasts

Trend Calculations

Forecast Calculations

Capacity Planning Goals

Quality of Service

Sampling Interval

Headroom

Missing or Invalid Data

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

Using Trends and Forecasts

Controlling Trend Calculations

Defining Forecast Models

Generating Forecasts

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 Using Capacity Advisor with Serviceguard

Using Serviceguard to Migrate Integrity VM Guests

Data Collection in a Serviceguard Environment

Command Reference

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

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

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.

capreport(1M) - Generate reports of historical data or utilization trends based on a scenario or the existing configuration.

capreport(4) - Format for Capacity Advisor capreport configuration file. Create a report from entries in a file.

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

A Units of Measurement

Capacity Advisor Units

B Capacity Advisor Error Messages

Error Messages

Handling Old Data

Glossary

Index