Setup Considerations

Licensing Requirements

Capacity Advisor is installed when all VSE components are installed. You receive a 90–day free trial period for Capacity Advisor. After this period expires, you must have a License To Use (LTU), which comes with activation instructions. For additional information about licensing, see the VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide. You will need an LTU for both Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor. Their part numbers and descriptions are as follows:

Installation

Capacity Advisor is installed with other VSE components, so no separate installation is required. To use Capacity Advisor, you must have a valid license.

	NOTE: When VSE is removed and reinstalled, collection of Capacity Advisor data can miss some data on the Central Management System (CMS). To avoid this, back up the VSE Management Software database before removing VSE and restore the database after it is reinstalled, using the following commands: vseinitconfig —b (before removing VSE) vseinitconfig —s (after reinstalling VSE)

Disk Space Requirements

To collect data for use by Capacity Advisor, plan for about 17 megabytes for each workload. Because Capacity Advisor keeps two years of data, eventually you will need 17.3MB per workload. For definition of a workload, see the VSE glossary. For additional information, see the capcollect manpage and the HP SIM manual.

Credentials

To use Capacity Advisor, collect data, and run reports, you must have credentials (valid user name and password) on systems where you plan to use it. For specifics about credentialing, see the VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide.

Dependencies

Capacity Advisor has the same software and hardware dependencies as Virtualization Manager. These dependencies apply to both managed systems and the CMS. For details, see the VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide.