New Capabilities by Product Area

Display of new managed system types, with meters and links to appropriate management tools

The System tab has been replaced by a new Visualization tab

User-configurable preferences for customizing the interface

Scalability and performance enhancements to support large configuration of managed systems (up to 500 systems).

User interface and help localized to Japanese.

Discovery of applications on HP Integrity servers running RHEL 5.x and SLES 10.x platforms.

Improved user interface for better scalability

In the Scenario Editor, improvements have been made to the What-If ActionUndo, Edit, or View... page:

Utilization limits for scenarios and workloads have been added. Users may now define when a system is full by specifying utilization limits for CPU, memory, network I/O, and disk I/O. These limits are honored by the HP Smart Solver and are used when moving workloads and running reports, and in headroom calculations.

Network and disk I/O are now viewable within scenarios and used throughout Capacity Advisor. The user is allowed to specify maximum expected data rates for network and disk I/O, or default to maximum observed values.

The HP Smart Solver allows system administrators to generate capacity planning information in an automated fashion, thus saving the time and effort required to manually plan the placement of workloads on systems. With HP Smart Solver you can automate the following:

You can constrain the solution by adjusting the following elements:

Headroom ratings have been added to the Move Workload and Move VM screens, to various reports, and to the Smart Solver.

System power has been added as a utilization and planning metric throughout Capacity Advisor.

Introduced the Capacity Advisor Scenario Comparison report, which provides a way to easily compare different scenarios within a single table. The comparison report also provides the ability to constrain CPU, memory, and power values for simulated configurations. Estimates are based on actual resource utilization and are displayed graphically.

Added the Extended Performance Management Pack, which allows data to be exported from HP Performance Management Pack (PMP) to the Capacity Advisor database and which normalizes the date interval of collected data to Capacity Advisor defaults.

Added support for localization of the Capacity Advisor user interface and help in Japanese.

gWLM can now predict when to allocate resources to certain workloads. If a workload has regularly occurring patterns of CPU usage, gWLM attempts to provide the workload with additional resources when they will be needed. Previously, gWLM would provide resources only in response to actual increased need.

gWLM can now form an SRD from members of a Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) group. GiCAP version 8.02.01 is required. You must include each GiCAP group member in the SRD. Also, you can use Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP) within an SRD based on a GiCAP group.

New type of conditional policy based on time.

New type of conditional policy based on the existence of a file (useful during system or application start-up).

New type of custom policy that scales a metric (you provide through gwlmsend) to produce a CPU request.

New default Min Size value for gWLM-provided OwnBorrow policies. The default Min Size is now 0.0. This value enables lending when used with any compartment type. (If you are upgrading from an earlier version of gWLM, the default Min Size for that version is still used.)

New behavior for ticapByPolicy attribute in policy definitions in an XML configuration file. You can enable use of TiCAP on an SRD level (using the ticapMode attribute in an SRD definition) or on a policy level (using the ticapByPolicy attribute). Assigning a value to ticapByPolicy is now effective only when the policy is used in an SRD that has its ticapMode attribute set to off. When ticapMode is set to none or all, it takes precedence over ticapByPolicy.

Better adjustment to resources added from iCAP reserves or the vPar monitor. gWLM can now temporarily make use of these resources manually added to managed compartments. However, gWLM can use the additional resources only within the originally discovered bounds of the SRD; thus, if cores are added in excess of configured maximums, gWLM does not allocate them. Also, gWLM does not recognize online adds/removes of cells. Modify the SRD to take full, persistent advantage of additional resources.

You can now modify an SRD (rather than re-create it) to take advantage of changes in resources or compartment sizes on a managed system. When you modify an SRD, the Workload/Policy Settings screen now allows you to specify the size of the SRD based on the system changes made. Be sure to verify that the policies being used are appropriate for the adjusted SRD size.

The HP Systems Insight Manager collection Shared Resource Domains inside the All VSE Resources collection is dynamically populated with the names and hosts of all deployed SRDs. You can now create custom collections that allow you to view subsets of SRDs in the Shared Resource Domain View. For information on creating custom collections, go to the Shared Resource Domain View and access the online help.

New report items. The “resource audit” and “topborrowers” reports produced by gwlmreport have several new items:

The AvgCons item also appears in the “abnormal utilization” report. For more information, see gwlmreport(1M).

Support for managing an SRD with nodes on a management LAN. For more information, see the HP Global Workload Manager Version 4.0 User's Guide.

Support for integrating gWLM with SAP. For more information, see the white paper Using Global Workload Manager with SAP at http://docs.hp.com/en/vse.html.

Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines version 3.5 (A.03.50).

Support for creating HP-UX 11i v3 and Linux virtual machines, using the Create Virtual Machine wizard. For more information, see the VM Manager online help.

Support of Accelerated Virtual Input/Output (AVIO) network and storage devices. AVIO storage devices can be added to a new virtual machine by using the Create Virtual Machine wizard. To add devices to an existing virtual machine, select ModifyAdd Storage Device to Virtual Machine... and ModifyAdd Network Device to Virtual Machine.... For more information about the Create Virtual Machine wizard and Modify menu, see the VM Manager help and the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 3.5 Getting Started Guide. For more information about AVIO, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.

Support for viewing VM Host and virtual machine event logs maintained by the Integrity Virtual Machines product on the VM Host. ViewIntegrity VM log for VM Host allows you to display the events pertaining to the VM Host and guests. The display is the result of running hpvmstatus -e on the VM Host. The display includes a summary of Integrity VM commands executed on the VM Host plus other information.

ViewIntegrity VM log for VM allows you to display the events pertaining to the selected virtual machines. The display is the result of running hpvmstatus -e -P vm-name on the VM Host. To use this option, one or more virtual machines must be selected on the current screen.

For more information, see the VM Manager online help and the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 3.5 Getting Started Guide.

Deleting a virtual machine using VM Manager from HP SIM and VSE Management Software now results in the virtual machine also being deleted from HP SIM. In addition, when creating a virtual machine using VM Manager, VM Manager now initiates re-identification of the VM Host by HP SIM so that the new virtual machine is recognized and added to HP SIM.

	NOTE: The HP SIM identification process may take a minute or two to complete. If you return to Virtualization Manager immediately after creating a virtual machine, the virtual machine might not yet be included in the Virtualization Manager view but appears automatically when identification completes. For information about a similar disjunction between VM manager actions and the Virtualization Manager view, see “A Virtual Machine Deleted Soon After Being Created Might Appear in Virtualization Manager”.

The iCAP Manager home page provides an overview of the Instant Capacity resources available.

The Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) group manager page shows information about a group manager, which may be hosting multiple GiCAP groups.

The GiCAP group page shows information about a single GiCAP group.

Detail pages show information about iCAP complexes and hosts.

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 ToolsInstant Capacity Manager from the VSE Management menu.

Select ToolsInstant Capacity Manager from the HP SIM menu.

All vseassist diagnostics that were present in VSE 3.0 are now available on the following configurations:

Compatible with all previous released versions of VSE.

The following new checks have been added:

Installation of agent software to HP Integrity or HP ProLiant Windows managed systems is supported on HP ProLiant Windows CMS. This capability is accessed via ConfigureConfigure VSE AgentsInstall Windows VSE Agents.

Installation of agent software to HP-UX Integrity and PA-RISC managed systems is supported on HP ProLiant Windows CMS. This capability is accessed via ConfigureConfigure VSE AgentsInstall HP-UX VSE Agents.

Installation of agent software to HP Integrity Linux managed systems is supported on HP ProLiant Windows CMS. This capability is accessed via ConfigureConfigure VSE AgentsInstall Integrity Linux VSE Agents.

Individual Windows and Linux agents can now be selected for install; you do not have to install the entire set of agents to each managed system.

RHEL 5

SLES 10