Capacity Pools view
Capacity management is a key requirement for multiple roles. Users either directly access capacity views and reports, or automatically receive capacity reports.
To access the view, in the navigation pane of Views tab, select Views > Capacity Pools. The Capacity Pools view is displayed and lists all the capacity pools and the Usage, Risk and Efficiency indicators for each pool.
View the data for a specific domain, entity, or tag by using the corresponding filters. For more information, see Filtering data displayed in Views.
Overview
After you define your infrastructure into segments, or capacity pools, BMC Helix Continuous Optimization automatically analyzes the right metrics on a daily basis and creates high-level indicators on Usage, Risk, and Efficiency, for each capacity pool. These indicators are displayed in a graphical view called the Capacity Pools view.
Using the Capacity Pools view, see the capacity utilization of aggregated entities and effectively manage the capacity of your entire IT infrastructure.
The Capacity Pools view displays the ranking for each capacity pool based on the Usage, Risk, and Efficiency score. Those scores are based on the CPU, Memory, and Disk usage of the capacity pool.
From these key indicators, navigate to more infrastructure-oriented views. For more information about how to use the key indicators, see Using Usage, Risk, and Efficiency indicators.
The indicators for Usage and Risk are based on thresholds.
Supported technologies
BMC Helix Continuous Optimization supports the following technology platforms for capacity pool views: VMware vSphere, IBM AIX on PowerVM, KVM, and Hyper-V.
The following capacity pool types are supported in this view:
- AIX Power VM hosts
- VMware clusters
- VMware hosts
- KVM hosts
- Hyper-V hosts
Capacity pools summary
To view all capacity pools, click the All tab and ensure the system type is No filter. The All tab denotes the total number of capacity pools for the selected platform. This is the default option.
You can filter the view by system type.
You can sort the capacity pools based on the Usage, Risk, or Efficiency score in the ascending or descending order.
Detailed information about a specific capacity pool
To view more details about a capacity pool, click the name of the capacity pool.
Summary tab
The Summary tab displays the performance details for the selected capacity pool.
Using the Summary tab, you can:
View the Usage, Efficiency and Risk indicators in bar charts.
Each bar chart shows the overall indicator value (Usage, Risk or Efficiency) of the capacity pool. This indicator is calculated by combining the different resources of that capacity pool.
For example, the Usage indicator for a VMware system indicates the overall usage of the capacity pool, which is calculated by combining the usage of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool.
The bar chart for this indicator displays the CPU, memory, and disk/storage usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware hosts.View utilization charts for essential metrics such as CPU, memory, total storage and total file size on an hourly and daily basis.
The following table describes the indicators that are displayed in the bar charts for the selected platform.
| Platform | Indicator | Description |
|---|---|---|
AIX | ||
Usage | Indicates the overall usage of the capacity pool. Calculated by combining the usage of CPU and memory resources of the capacity pool. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Risk | Indicates the overall risk of the capacity pool. Calculated by assigning penalty points for key capacity and performance metrics of the capacity pool. Metrics from CPU and Memory are taken into account. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Efficiency | Indicates the overall efficiency of the capacity pool. Calculated by combining the efficiency of CPU and memory resources of the capacity pool. Under-used CPU and memory resources are considered inefficient use of resources. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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VMware | Usage | Indicates the overall usage of the capacity pool. Calculated by combining the usage of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Risk | Indicates the overall risk of the capacity pool. Calculated by assigning penalty points for key capacity and performance metrics of the capacity pool. Metrics from CPU, Memory, Storage are taken into account. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Efficiency | Indicates the overall efficiency of the capacity pool. Calculated by combining the efficiency of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. Under-used resources, Idle VMs, and old snapshots are considered inefficient use of resources. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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KVM | Usage | Indicates the overall usage of the capacity pool. Calculated by combining the usage of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Risk | Indicates the overall risk of the capacity pool, calculated by assigning penalty points for key capacity and performance metrics of the capacity pool. Metrics from CPU, Memory, Storage are taken into account. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Efficiency | Indicates the overall efficiency of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the efficiency of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. Under-used resources, Idle VMs, and old snapshots are considered inefficient use of resources. Bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
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Utilization chart
Utilization charts display essential metrics such as CPU, memory, total storage and total file size on an hourly and daily basis. When you hover your mouse over data points in the charts, values for those data points are displayed in the data tips. Below the chart, when you move your cursor over different data points, the values for the indicators (for example, the memory utilization, real memory utilization, CPU utilization and total datastore space utilization values) update dynamically.
Example of a Utilization (hourly) chart
You can save the charts as image files, download chart data, annotate and print charts. For more information, see Managing charts.
Configuration metrics
The Configuration Details tab displays the configuration metrics for the capacity pool.
The following table is an example of configuration data that is displayed for a selected capacity pool.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| General Information and Status | |
| CPU total clock frequency | Total clock frequency of all the CPUs in a capacity pool. |
| Real memory | Physical memory allocated in a capacity pool. |
| Total size of the Datastores | Total size of all the datastores in a capacity pool. |
| Total size of all Filesystems | Total size of the file system. |
| CPU | |
| Number of CPU cores | Number of CPU cores per capacity pool. |
CPU Entitled Capacity | Sum of entitlement configured for the partitions in the pool. |
CPU Cores not assigned | Number of cores that are not assigned to any PowerVM Partition on the host. |
Contained elements in a capacity pool
The Contained Elements tab displays the details of all elements that are contained in the capacity pool. Use the Contained Elements to:
- View all elements in the capacity pool with their corresponding values for the Usage, Risk and Efficiency indicators. Each indicator further displays resources, for example, CPU, memory, storage, that are taken into account to calculate that indicator value.
- View tooltips for each indicator. When you hover over each individual resource bar (CPU, Memory, or Storage), a tooltip displays the score of the underlying element, in percentage, with the score details. This information helps you quickly identify any problem area and determine any remedial action that may be required. For information about how these scores are calculated, see Capacity Pool Indicator Computation.
For more information about how to use indicators, see Using Usage, Risk and Efficiency indicators. - Click the name of the element to view the technology details of the element. For example, if you click a VMware host element, the vSphere infrastructure view is displayed for the selected element.
The following table describes the indicators for each supported platform.
| Platform | Indicator | Resource | Denotes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AIX | NA | NA | System name | Name of the element from the capacity pool. Click on the name to view details of that element. |
Usage | Usage | Overall usage score | Overall usage of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the usage of CPU and memory resources of the capacity pool. | |
| CPU | CPU usage score | CPU usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying AIX frames. | ||
| Memory | Memory usage score | Memory usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying AIX frames. | ||
| Storage | NA | Not supported | ||
Risk | Risk | Overall risk score | Overall risk of the capacity pool, calculated by assigning penalty points for key capacity and performance metrics of the capacity pool. Metrics from CPU and Memory are taken into account. | |
| CPU | CPU risk score | Maximum of the CPU risk indicators of the underlying AIX frames. CPU risk of the underlying AIX frames are computed by using key capacity indicators (CPU days to saturation) and CPU demand indicators (CPU queue length). | ||
| Memory | Memory risk score | Maximum of the Memory risk indicators of the underlying AIX frames. Memory risk of the underlying AIX frames are computed by using key capacity indicators like Memory days to saturation and Memory demand indicators like paging. | ||
| Storage | NA | Not supported | ||
Efficiency | Efficiency | Overall efficiency score | Overall efficiency of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the efficiency of CPU and memory resources of the capacity pool. Under-used CPU and memory resources are considered inefficient use of resources. | |
| CPU | CPU efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
| Memory | Memory efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
| Storage | NA | Not supported | ||
VMware | Usage | Usage | Overall usage score | Overall usage of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the usage of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. |
| CPU | CPU usage score | CPU usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware clusters. | ||
| Memory | Memory usage score | Memory usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware clusters. | ||
| Storage | Storage usage score | Disk/storage usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware clusters. | ||
Risk | Risk | Overall risk score | Overall risk of the capacity pool, calculated by assigning penalty points for key capacity and performance metrics of the capacity pool. Metrics from CPU, Memory, Storage are taken into account. | |
| CPU | CPU risk score | Maximum of the CPU risk indicators of the underlying VMware clusters. CPU risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed by using key capacity indicators (CPU days to saturation) and CPU demand indicators (CPU ready time). | ||
| Memory | Memory risk score | Maximum of the Memory risk indicators of the underlying VMware clusters. Memory risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed by using key capacity indicators (Memory days to saturation) and Memory demand indicators (swapping and ballooning). | ||
| Storage | Storage risk score | Maximum of the Storage risk indicators of the underlying VMware clusters. Storage risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed by using key capacity indicators (storage days to saturation) and performance indicators (disk latency). | ||
Efficiency | Efficiency | Overall efficiency score | Overall efficiency of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the efficiency of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. Under-used resources, Idle VMs, and old snapshots are considered inefficient use of resources. | |
| CPU | CPU efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
| Memory | Memory efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
| Storage | Storage efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
KVM | Usage | Usage | Overall usage score | Overall usage of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the usage of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. |
| CPU | CPU usage score | CPU usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying KVM hosts. | ||
| Memory | Memory usage score | Memory usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying KVM hosts. | ||
| Storage | Storage usage score | Disk/storage usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying KVM hosts. | ||
Risk | Risk | Overall risk score | Overall risk of the capacity pool, calculated by assigning penalty points for key capacity and performance metrics of the capacity pool. Metrics from CPU, Memory, Storage are taken into account. | |
| CPU | CPU risk score | Maximum of the CPU risk indicators of the underlying KVM hosts. CPU risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed by using key capacity indicators (CPU days to saturation) and CPU demand indicators (CPU ready time). | ||
| Memory | Memory risk score | Maximum of the Memory risk indicators of the underlying KVM hosts. Memory risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed by using key capacity indicators (Memory days to saturation) and Memory demand indicators (swapping and ballooning). | ||
| Storage | Storage risk score | Maximum of the Storage risk indicators of the underlying KVM hosts. Storage risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed by using key capacity indicators (storage days to saturation) and performance indicators (disk latency). | ||
Efficiency | Efficiency | Overall efficiency score | Overall efficiency of the capacity pool, calculated by combining the efficiency of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool. Under-used resources, Idle VMs, and old snapshots are considered inefficient use of resources. | |
| CPU | CPU efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
| Memory | Memory efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. | ||
| Storage | Storage efficiency score | Higher values indicate higher efficiency. |
Detailed information about the specific element
Directly navigate from a capacity pool view to the corresponding virtualization view to further explore it in detail.
Click VM details, the corresponding view opens in the vSphere tab.
To view the thresholds that are defined for the selected system, click Thresholds.
Note
You can access a specific view page in the Views tab depending on the access role privileges and permissions of the logged-in user. For example, if you are logged in with a Capacity Planner role, you will see only those details in the virtualization view in that your role has access rights to. For more information about access rights, see Configuring authorization profiles.
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