HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual
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Figure 4-1 Example of bar meters on a System tab in the scenario editor
The weekly data is representative of recent utilization and can be calculated quickly, but doesn't
always give a comprehensive picture.
For a more comprehensive picture, look at a month of data. Change the
to a month
by clicking Edit Interval and selecting “Month” from the first drop-down list, and then OK.
Once the screen has refreshed, new information about resource utilization is available. In this
case, you can see that some of the utilization peaks have increased.
Scrolling or paging through the list of servers, you can see that some of the servers have peak
usage that is at 100% of the resource, an insight you were not able to glean from the consolidation
candidates report. The following image shows a server in this situation (legacy08).
The red bars in the CPU utilization column indicate that the utilization limits assumed for this
scenario have been exceeded, though the available resource capacity has not. Mousing over the
Task: Plan server consolidation
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