The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Summary

The Capacity Advisor component of the VSE management suite provides the data, tools, and reports necessary to make informed decisions regarding workload placement, migration, and consolidation. Using this product, capacity planners are able to analyze each workload's utilization profile. With data in hand, they can create baselines as the foundation for performing what-if scenarios. The baseline can be finely tuned to accurately represent the nature of the workloads, which creates more accurate representations of the workload's resource requirements. Specific workloads may require that you build elaborate recurrences into the baseline, such as peaks on a biweekly basis, in order to reflect the nature of workloads. After adjusting the ...