Overview

HP Capacity Advisor provides a collection of utilities for the capacity planner, but to begin using them, you must start with the following:

Access the product (see “Accessing Capacity Advisor”).
Gather data (see “Gathering Data for Capacity Advisor”).

With access, and collected data, you can do the following tasks:

Manipulate scenarios (simulations that allow you to ask "what if?" questions based on real data), including the following actions:
- Create scenarios. You can select the systems to use in the scenario, name the scenario, and provide a short description. See “Creating a Planning Scenario”.
- Edit 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”.
- Copy a scenario lets you start with an existing scenario to build a new one. See “Copying a Scenario”
- Rename a scenario. See “Renaming a Scenario”
- View, modify, or undo changes to a scenario. See “Undoing or Editing Changes to Scenario”.
- Control the behavior of a scenario by modifying the time interval and reported metric. See “ Controlling the Data Display”.
- Delete unwanted scenarios. See “Deleting a Scenario”.
Manipulate systems within a scenario. Systems can represent real systems or just simulate new systems, and can be either physical or virtual systems. You can do the following tasks:
- Create systems for the scenario. See “Creating a System”.
- Add an existing system to the scenario. See “Adding an Existing System”.
- Edit system resources. See “Editing a System”.
- Move virtual machines within the scenario. See “Moving a Virtual Machine”.
- Removing systems. See “Removing a System”.
Manipulate workloads within a scenario. Workloads represent applications running on systems and can be moved across systems within a scenario. You can do the following tasks:
- Create workloads within the scenario. See “Creating a Workload”.
- Edit workload attributes. See “Editing a Workload”.
- Move workloads within the scenario. See “Moving a Workload”.
- Park workloads. Parking a workload removes the effects of the workload from the scenario, losing the definition of the workload. See “Parking a Workload”.
- Remove workloads from the scenario. See “Removing a Workload”.
View graphs and review data, including the following actions:
- Access the Profile Viewer. The Profile Viewer provides a graphical display and a tabular summary of resource utilization. See “Using the Profile Viewer”.
- Generate and review resource utilization reports. Reports can combine information from multiple systems and workloads, from historical data or from data that is computed from a scenario. (See “Utilization Reports Overview”. ) Reports can then be saved to a file and then mailed to others or put on a web server.

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