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• Difference between file system capacity and the capacity of the disks in Capacity Planner reports

  Hello

  I had to go on my Capacity Planner tool training soon, but I have a question on the front that frustrates me. In the evaluation report that comes out of the tool after the analysis, a use of disc section, which lists all the servers for analysis there. A column of this report is directed to file system capacity, another disk capacity. In all cases, the first is less than the latter. What is the exact meaning of these labels?

  Some of the numbers differ substantially between the columns, for example 20 GB for a capacity of 36 GB of disk space for a server and file system. He said that only 20 GB to 36 GB disk is formatted/partitioned to use?

  As previously stated:

  Disk capacity is 36 GB - physically, there are 36 GB of storage.

  File system is logical capacity - the amount of space used by files on the disks.

  File system and the capacity of the disks will never match because fees General table of file.

  I hope this helps.

  -abe

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• VMware Capacity Planner data report - shows don't not all systems in the dashboard Version 2.7

  I worked on an evaluation with over 1300 machines for a few weeks now. I just ran a VMware capacity Planner data report today and it shows that 37 systems. Anyone else having this problem? I started a Monday SR something else and still have no answer, so I thought I would try the forum first this time.

  Dave Convery

  VMware vExpert 2009

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  Prudent. We do not want to make of this.

  Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes".

  Try to create a group of man LAN and add the systems and re - run the report.

  Which fixed the problem with a report, I ran...

• Capacity Planner reports wrong CPU info for Fedora system

  Hello

  I do an exercise Capacity Planner for a customer who has two IBM x 3650 servers Fedora Core. These two have 2 dual core Xeon 5160 of Intel processors. Capacity Planner reports the number of CPU as 3 however. Certainly, this should be 4 (2 x 2 hearts). Capacity Planner gets its information on processors in the file/proc/cpuinfo. I inspected this file (I think) that lists correctly 4 cores. I've included the output below.

  Someone at - it ideas?

  Neil.

  Processor: 0

  vendor_id: GenuineIntel

  CPU family: 6

  model: 15

  model name: Xeon of Intel (r) CPU 5160 @ 3 .00GHz

  step by step: 6

  CPU MHz: 2997.000

  cache size: 4096 KB

  physical ID: 0

  siblings: 2

  the base ID: 0

  CPU cores: 2

  fdiv_bug: no

  hlt_bug: no

  f00f_bug: no

  coma_bug: no

  FPU: Yes

  fpu_exception: Yes

  CPUID level: 10

  WP: Yes

  flags: fpu vme pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx is tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm dca

  BogoMips: 5988.29

  clflush size: 64

  Processor: 1

  vendor_id: GenuineIntel

  CPU family: 6

  model: 15

  model name: Xeon of Intel (r) CPU 5160 @ 3 .00GHz

  step by step: 6

  CPU MHz: 1998.000

  cache size: 4096 KB

  physical ID: 0

  siblings: 2

  the base ID: 1

  CPU cores: 2

  fdiv_bug: no

  hlt_bug: no

  f00f_bug: no

  coma_bug: no

  FPU: Yes

  fpu_exception: Yes

  CPUID level: 10

  WP: Yes

  flags: fpu vme pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx is tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm dca

  BogoMips: 5984.98

  clflush size: 64

  Processor: 2

  vendor_id: GenuineIntel

  CPU family: 6

  model: 15

  model name: Xeon of Intel (r) CPU 5160 @ 3 .00GHz

  step by step: 6

  CPU MHz: 1998.000

  cache size: 4096 KB

  physical ID: 3

  siblings: 2

  the base ID: 0

  CPU cores: 2

  fdiv_bug: no

  hlt_bug: no

  f00f_bug: no

  coma_bug: no

  FPU: Yes

  fpu_exception: Yes

  CPUID level: 10

  WP: Yes

  flags: fpu vme pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx is tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm dca

  BogoMips: 5985.03

  clflush size: 64

  Processor: 3

  vendor_id: GenuineIntel

  CPU family: 6

  model: 15

  model name: Xeon of Intel (r) CPU 5160 @ 3 .00GHz

  step by step: 6

  CPU MHz: 1998.000

  cache size: 4096 KB

  physical ID: 3

  siblings: 2

  the base ID: 1

  CPU cores: 2

  fdiv_bug: no

  hlt_bug: no

  f00f_bug: no

  coma_bug: no

  FPU: Yes

  fpu_exception: Yes

  CPUID level: 10

  WP: Yes

  flags: fpu vme pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx is tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm dca

  BogoMips: 5985.03

  clflush size: 64

  Hello

  There are 4 cores... Heart 0-4, I think that capacity planner can be a problem with the counts of base 0. I would like to raise this issue with the people of capacity planner.

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• New material in Capacity Planner

  Hello

  Sorry if these are fundamental questions - his age since I used ability cards!

  I look at is equipment and ability cards models - but all systems are quite old. Do new systems added automatically or is there and easy way for me to add a? For example, I was hoping to use Lenovo X 3650 servers in my assessment of consolidation, but there is no entry of Lenovo, I see. Even former IBM 3650 x models are not suitable.

  No one knows when the capacity planner is updated to include the version 6 of vSphere?

  Finally, for the system settings there are three parameters of the disc for a host ESXi - size, speed and i/o speed, what should be? Am I right in assuming that the size is the size of the storage SAN (in my case 40 to), the speed is the speed of connection (in my case 8 GB FC) and the e/s? (No idea). Or am I wrong?

  Thanks a lot for your help!

  Select your company on the left side, and then go to tools select society project (in the menu bar black). system models.

• Capacity planner, no data help

  Sorry if this is the wrong place for this topic, but I can't find a specific forum for the capacity planner.

  I installed a collector on a site and registered 20 machines. I registered the database ID in the dashboard. the collector is collecting information regularly and it shows that the data are uploaded. but I waited for 3 days now and the dashboard shows always do not all data.

  am I missing something? where should I start looking?

  Thank you

  Do you not see that the systems when you open the tab 'Select systems' for you're your project in "Administration"-> "my projects"?

  André

• Capacity Planner - no report?

  Hi all

  I'm doing my first run with Capacity Planner and I run a CBS for our internal environment as a test.  The collector has worked for several weeks and it seems to work fine (data, logs display the data are synchronized, reports run).  However when I connect to http://optimize.vmware.com I can't generate all reports.  If I open the dashboard of company I see data (lists systems, performance indicators, etc.) and the company status that it y 24 systems to consider.  The 'Reports' tab is dimmed and does not respond to clicks.

  I'm sure that a few step or the configuration is missing, but I can't understand what it is.  If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

  Thanks for your time,

  Amanda

  Maybe you should check to define your project... whether the server or desktop.

  Then choose or define the target server that you want to include in the reports.

  (administration-> my project->, and then choose your project)

• Capacity Planner 2.7.2 Linux error

  I have Capacity Planner 2.7.2 installed on the customer's site.  It is installed in a virtual VMware 4.1 computer.  I am so he could collect data from performance on 4 hosts ESXi 4.1.  When you try to perform the inventory or the performance on these 4 servers I received the following error message: "the default shell of connection is not supported.  Can someone tell me what is not set correctly?

  You cannot monitor ESX host because there is no part of the operating system that is supported. You can use the batch ESXtop mode or vcenter (if you have one) to monitor the performance of your host.

• Collector capacity Planner

  Is is possible to assign the same collector to two different customer id without causing problems?

  Hi Rob,

  On the site of VMware Capacity Planner, you can create groups of system assessment - group system.  You can configure the report of the EC to only select the group in the report.

  Looks like you are using a collector to collect data from different location in different time period.  You can also choose what time is best for your report of the CE.

• Capacity Planner tool query

  I have following queries about this tool:

  1 can I use several model material for one scenario for example if I need to develop two types of material saying low and high-end and would like to place the result of the VM, is there an available way to achieve this?

  2. If the server under evaluation receive their IP address of the DHCP server and evaluating servers go down during the assessment and it comes back later with diffferent IP how corelate the previous data?

  3. as a follow-up to Question #2, what happens if the IP remains same. It will be able to collect data from the systems being evaluated?

  4. I need to understand the "Averge industry" in detail. What is the basis of filling it and how he is referred to as "Standardized", without providing details.

  First of all. My experience of the Capacity Planner tool is old, then you want to dubble some offsets verify what I say.

  1. you must decide what systems are low-end and high-end. Then, you make a scenario using the 'high end' group modeled on high-end hardware. Then, obviosly, the Group of low range on a low-end hardware. To my knowledge there is no way for the Capacity Planner automatically determine what are the high or low end systems and plce on different hardware models.

  2 capacity planner will then see that as two different systems, BUT, even if you have a DHCP server based Park (which is not so common actually) server and the server has been down longer the term of the lease to configure the DHCP scope the first thing that the server will ask you when it comes is back the permission to use the last him, called IP address. So if that is not granted to a plaintiff again the server will come with its old IP address in most cases.

  3. Yes

  4. the 'average/standard industrial' is simply statistical. For example if the average of 1000 SQL servers out there shows a specific behavior and your SQL Server performed way differently (uses a lot more resources), then you might want to consider why your implementation is so different. To avoid purchase Super material just to accommodate a messed-up SQL Server when you might be happier with a slower material, or less, if you just set your SQL implementation. That's all.

  / R

• VMware Capacity Planner - RHE Linux 4 ACEs

  Hello

  I have a problem... I need info about the inventory of servers with Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4 Recollet / Red Hat 3 / AIX, etc and other information performance with VMware Capacity Planner, but I can't Recollet of CPU and RAM info because I get errors with dmidecode and lsdev command, this command returns "command not found, I have attached the log:

  13:49:59:1:436 05/02/2009: inventory: start as a task work = 9 ID

  13:49:59:1:436 05/02/2009: inventory: inventory systems 1 collection

  13:49:59:2:436 05/02/2009: inventory: collection of inventory for system "172.16.49.38:2".

  13:49:59:1:436 05/02/2009: inventory: all systems subject to treat for the task ID = 9

  "13:49:59:2:1112 05/02/2009: inventory: ' 172.16.49.38 ' is a Unix system.  Using Unix methods.

  05/02/2009 13:49:59:1:1112: Inventory.GetUnixInv: collection of inventory for 172.16.49.38

  05/02/2009 13:51:38:2:1112: Inventory.GetUnixInv: import file (C:\Program VMware capacity Planner\temp\Inv_172.16.49.38_6104B49C-5117-FB4F-B391-FD169C82A65A.txt) inventory for 172.16.49.38

  05/02/2009 13:51:38:0:1112: Inventory.ProcessInvObjects: http://2-172.16.49.38 command = 'dmidecode' returned error = no trouvΘ in / bin: / usr/bin: / usr/sbin: / sbin: / usr/contrib/bin 13:51:38:0:1112 05/02/2009: Inventory.ProcessInvObjects: http://2-172.16.49.38 command = 'lsdev' returned error = no trouvΘ in / bin: / usr/bin: / usr/sbin: / sbin: / usr/contrib/bin

  13:51:49:1:436 05/02/2009: inventory: Inventory Collection complete for task work '9' IDS

  Please your help...

  Seems that your server does not support SMBIOS - nothing you can do about it.

  -Matt

• VMware Capacity Planner

  Hi, I intend to use migrate 40 physical server to virtual... I'm planninmg to use Vmware Capacity Planner, but I based on the web two method and the free agent method. For the method based on the Web, I got a website but didn't register for capacity planner so I am not able to connect to the site https://optimize.vmware.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=security & page = users_login_form.cfm and I get no registration on this site... Please help me how to sign up for the planner of abilities... or let me know how to use the free agent method... Thanks Tiwari

  markuk wrote:

  What operating system is supported for VMware Capacity Planner?

  Capacity Planner requires Windows 2000 or 2003 with a system of operating language ASCII. The practice of VMware mandates us English Windows 200 x operating system as the best.

  Capacity Planner collects since Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0, 2000, and 2003; Red Hat Linux 8 and 9 Enterprise Linux (ARE/AS/WS) 3 and 4; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; 9, 10 and 8 HP - UX 10.x, 11.0, 11.11, 11.22 (PA-RISC) and 11.23 (Itanium); and environments operating Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 (Sparc) and 9 and 10 (x 86). -in the FAQ Technical Capacity Planner

  Belongs to VMware Capacity Planner virtual Center?

  N ° as Yattong mentioned previously, there is a feature in VirtualCenter guided Consolidation.  This function serves a purpose similar to the Capacity Planner, but only with the guided Consolidation feature can not involved you an external partner.  If you want to use the Scheduler to full-on Capactiy, you need to associate a VMware partner to do this.  If you use a larger store, the Capacity Planner approach may be merit to be studied.  Otherwise, give the Consolidation guided to try first and see what you come up with.  Then you can decide whether or not to involve partners VMware.

  Good luck!

• Y at - it update Dell Capacity Planner or similar?

  Hello.  I searched for a calculator / planner that will tell me the power requirements of the Dell Poweredge 13 G rack of servers with various configurations.

  I found a copy of the DataCenter Capacity Planner to http://www.dell.com/html/us/products/rack_advisor_new/, that looks like exactly what I want, except that it lists only the old servers.

  Y at - it a more updated version of this somewhere?  Or he was replaced by another tool?

  Thanks for any help.

  (PS. I was going to make this post in the PowerEdge Rack HW forum, but for some reason that I can't create messages in this one).

  Hello.

  The tool you are looking for is called the Dell Energy Smart Solution Advisor (ESSA). See the link: www.dell.com/.../config_calculator. You will also find the Data Center Capacity Planner (DCCP) at the bottom of the same page.

• Import Performance data in VMware Capacity Planner

  VMware Capacity Planner has the ability to import performance data in data manager or you must collect data from performance via the Capacity Planner software?

  Hello wgmaurerEMC,

  
  

  You can collect data from target of UNIX and Linux machines running the CP shell on each target computer scripts

  rather than run the scripts through the host of collector.

  Please, see page 47 of the CP reference Guide attached on how to implement the manual execution of scripts.

  Best regards

  Lazar

• How to get this capacity planner & what is its requirements?

  Hi friends,

  I'm looking for this product in the world, but its not available anywhere? How can we get this software? Is there a trial version? What is its needs, someone can explain to me please?

  Thank you!

  AFAIK Capacity Planner is only available for VMware partners, and the people using it are asked to take training online as well as a brief review.

  André