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At a glance
Course number HB504X
Length 1 day
Delivery method Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price

USD $1,400
CAD $1,440

How to order To order or find out more information, please call our Customer Registration Center (CRC) in the US at 800-472-5277 (800-HPCLASS) or in Canada at 800-563-5089.
You can also submit a query online.

Course overview

HP Capacity Advisor maximizes return on investment and reduces costs in a virtualized environment by effectively sharing resources. These benefits can only be realized by spotting precisely where resources can be shared or moved between virtual systems, all revealed through the Capacity Advisor application.


Prerequisites

  • HP Virtual Server Environment overview online training (HB503AAE)

Audience

  • IT Managers
  • System Administrators
  • IT Professionals
  • System Developers

Ways to save

Course objectives

  • Understand Capacity Advisor and the problems it is designed to solve
  • Understand how to install Systems Insight Manager 5 onto HP-UX including removing SCM
  • Understand installation of the Virtual Server Environment (VSE) management suite including Capacity Advisor
  • Learn to collect data for managed nodes and understand how this relates to the concept of workloads
  • Learn how to define and use scenarios in Capacity Advisor
  • Understand potential data issues and how Capacity Advisor can be preloaded with data collected from other tools
  • Learn how Serviceguard impacts Capacity Advisor and system availability considerations when designing active/passive clusters
  • Understand how to fit Capacity Advisor into partitioning continuum and use it to help planning partitioned and virtual systems

Benefits to you

  • Understand how to use Capacity Advisor to help maximize return on investment and reduce overall IT costs through improved resource utilization in a virtualized server environment
  • Match workloads to server resources by pre-testing different scenarios before making changes to critical applications
  • Reduce time and effort spent analyzing utilization by automatically tracking and importing historical workload utilization data

Course outline

  • Introduce Capacity Advisor
  • Installing HP Insight Manager
  • Install VSE Management Tools and Capacity Advisor
  • Getting Started With Capacity Advisor
  • Collecting Data for Managed Nodes
  • Understanding Workloads
  • Defining and Using Scenarios
  • Managing Data: Importing, Exporting, and Cleaning
  • Using Capacity Advisor with Serviceguard
  • Capacity Advisor and the Virtual Server Environment
  • Saving Money with Capacity Advisor

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