Utilization Monitor, Calculator, and Simulator

HP Capacity Advisor performs numerous functions. At a fundamental level, it collects data from utilization monitoring daemons on systems and workloads. Using this data, Capacity Advisor can report on utilization of memory, core processing units, I/O bandwidth, and power. It can calculate what resource utilization would look like if the load were increased or decreased. Further, it can simulate what resource utilization might look like if loads are combined. This goes beyond simple addition of maximum loads to provide a dynamic addition of components based on the time sequence of utilization measurements taken from the actual loads running on real systems (see “Peaks and Sums”).