Capacity Pools details

This topic describes the details page of Capacity Pools. To access the details page of a particular Capacity Pool, in the Capacity Pools view page, click the name of that capacity pool. The Pool details page opens and provides:

General details of the selected capacity pool
A summary view of the indicators and metrics in the Summary tab

A list of configuration metrics in the Configuration Details tab

Details of elements contained in the capacity pool in the Contained Elements tab

General details

The Capacity Pools details page lists the following general details:

Name: The name of the capacity pool.
Type: The system type of the capacity pool, for example, VMware.
List of elements contained in the capacity pool, for example, number of clusters, hosts, datastores, and Virtual Machines (VMs).
Tags: Lists the tags that are associated with that capacity pool.

Capacity Pools: General details

To go back to the Capacity Pools view page, click at the top left of the Pool details page.

Summary

The Summary tab displays performance details for the selected capacity pool. Using the Summary tab, you can:

View the Usage, Efficiency and Risk indicators in bar charts.
Each indicator bar chart shows the overall indicator value (Usage, Risk or Efficiency) of the capacity pool, 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, calculated by combining the usage of CPU, Memory, Storage resources of the capacity pool.
The bar chart for this indicator includes the following metrics:
- CPU: CPU usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware hosts.
- Memory: Memory usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware hosts.
- Disk: Disk/storage usage of the element, aggregated from the underlying VMware hosts.
Note
The resources per indicator are based on the platform that is selected.
View utilization charts for essential metrics such as CPU, memory, total storage and total file size on an hourly and daily basis.

For more information on how to use the Usage, Risk and Efficiency indicators to gauge the health of you capacity pool, see Using Usage, Risk,and Efficiency indicators.

Example of the Summary tab in a Capacity Pool details page

The following table describes the indicators that are displayed in bar charts, as per the selected platform.

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Platform indicators

Utilization charts

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 Details

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.

Sample configuration data

Resource	Value	Description
General Information and Status
CPU total clock frequency	in GHz	The total clock frequency of all the CPUs in a capacity pool.
Real memory	in GB	The physical memory allocated in a capacity pool.
Total size of the Datastores	in TB	The total size of all the datastores in a capacity pool.
Total size of all Filesystems	in TB	Total size of the file system.
CPU
Number of CPU cores	Number	The number of CPU cores per capacity pool.
CPU Entitled Capacity	in GHz	Sum of entitlement configured for the partitions in the pool.
CPU Cores not assigned	Number	Number of cores that are not assigned to any PowerVM Partition on the host.

Contained Elements

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, that is for Usage, Risk and Efficiency. When you hover over each individual resource bar (CPU, Memory, or Storage), a tooltip displays the score of the underlying element, in percentage, with a brief reasoning of the score. This information can help you quickly identify any problem area and determine any remedial action that may be required. For information on how these scores are calculated, see the Capacity Pool Indicator Computation PDF.
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.

Example of the Contained Elements tab

The following table describes the indicators for each supported platform.

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Contained Elements table

Platform	Indicator	Resource	Denotes	Description
AIX	NA	NA	System name	The name of the element from the capacity pool. Click on the name to view details of that element.
	Usage	Usage	Overall usage score	Indicates the 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	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.
		CPU	CPU risk score	Maximum of the CPU risk indicators of the underlying AIX frames. CPU risk of the underlying AIX frames are computed using key capacity indicators like CPU days to saturation and CPU demand indicators like 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 using key capacity indicators like Memory days to saturation and Memory demand indicators like paging.
		Storage	NA	Not supported
	Efficiency	Efficiency	Overall efficiency score	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.
		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	Indicates the 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	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.
		CPU	CPU risk score	Maximum of the CPU risk indicators of the underlying VMware clusters. CPU risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed using key capacity indicators like CPU days to saturation and CPU demand indicators like 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 using key capacity indicators like Memory days to saturation and Memory demand indicators like 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 using key capacity indicators like storage days to saturation and performance indicators like disk latency.
	Efficiency	Efficiency	Overall efficiency score	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.
		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	Indicates the 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	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.
		CPU	CPU risk score	Maximum of the CPU risk indicators of the underlying KVM hosts. CPU risk indicator of the underlying clusters are computed using key capacity indicators like CPU days to saturation and CPU demand indicators like 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 using key capacity indicators like Memory days to saturation and Memory demand indicators like 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 using key capacity indicators like storage days to saturation and performance indicators like disk latency.
	Efficiency	Efficiency	Overall efficiency score	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.
		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.

Viewing virtualization details in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console

You can directly navigate from a capacity pool view to BMC Helix Capacity Optimization, and further explore that capacity pool view's corresponding virtualization view in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console.

Tip

The action menu is located to the left of the Name column.

The corresponding virtualization view opens in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console in a new tab of the browser.

If you click Launch in infrastructure-specific view in another element row, the same browser tab that launched the Helix Capacity Optimization Console earlier, refreshes with the new content.

Note

Viewing a specific view page in Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard depends 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 on access rights, see Configuring-user-roles-and-access-groups.

Sorting and filtering columns

You can sort and filter the systems you want to display in the Contained Elements table.

To sort systems, hover your cursor at the end of the Name column.
A dropdown icon is displayed.
Click to display the available options.
Sort the container pool names alphabetically, or use the available filters to display the required container pools.

Similarly, you can sort each indicator column.