This document provides an overview of the changes made to HP Service Health Optimizer (HP SH Optimizer) for the version 9.10. It contains important information not included in the manuals or in online help.
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What's New In This Version
Fixes
Licensing
Installation Notes
Documentation
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
Integration and Co-existence with other HP Software Products
HP Software Support
Legal Notices
This release of HP SH Optimizer includes the following:
New Features
- Support for filtering groups: You can now configure filters to hide unwanted groups (Business Services, Business Applications, Clusters, or HPOM Node Groups) from the list of available groups. The groups that are hidden will not be visible on any screen of the HP SH Optimizer application. This feature enables to limit the groups so that you can conveniently work on the required groups.
- Additional reports: The following SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence reports have been added for On-Demand placement scenarios:
- On-Demand Placement by Host
- On-Demand Placement by Cluster
- Awareness for Resource Allocation and Entitlement: The HP SH Optimizer inventory screen now displays the percentage of CPU capacity allocated to the VMs present on hosts belonging to a group. Also, while creating optimization scenarios, you can see the minimum and maximum CPU and memory that a given workload is entitled to use. In addition, you can see the allocated CPU and memory capacity for VM hosts in the Utilization Analysis chart on the Inventory screen.
- Support for creating clones of workload characteristics: You can now create copies of the characteristics of existing workloads and VM hosts for use in the optimization and forecast what-if scenarios.
Enhancements to Existing Features
- Modify On-Demand Placement Scenarios: You can now edit and delete on-demand VM placement scenarios. You can also generate SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence reports on the scenarios.
- CPU speed normalization: The CPU speed normalization database has been updated to refer to SPECInt2006Rate values instead of SPECInt2006 values.
- Launch Forecast What-if from Forecast Screen: You can now launch the Forecast What-if scenario application for clusters from the Forecast screen in addition to the Inventory screen.
- CPU normalization for custom workloads: While adding a custom workload in an optimization scenario definition, you can now define a reference host for the custom workload. The CPU capacity that you specify for the custom workload is considered as the CPU usage of the reference host for normalization using SPECInt. This enhancement enables you to define a standard reference for creating new VMs and help in migrating non-x86 workloads to x86 workloads.
- Enhanced data quality: The HP SH Optimizer application now provides configurable thresholds to ensure that enough data is available for display on the VM Sizing graph and VM Activity chart on the Inventory screen and also for use in VM Placement analysis. Also, on the VM Activity chart, you can see the number of VMs that have insufficient data, which is calculated by using the thresholds.
- Optimization opportunity options: The Inventory screen now displays the Optimization Opportunity star rating in terms of Configured Capacity or Utilization based on the option that you select on the configuration page.
Although HP Service Health Reporter (HP SH Reporter) is a prerequisite for installing and using HP SH Optimizer, you no longer need to purchase a license for HP SH Reporter.
You can now install HP SH Optimizer on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 operating system.
In addition to HPOM for Windows version 8.16 and 9.00, HP SH Optimizer now supports HPOM for UNIX version 9.10, HPOM for Linux version 9.10, and HPOM for Solaris version 9.10 as topology service definitions in the HPOM deployment scenario.
HP SH Optimizer uses the updated version of the Sybase IQ database, that is, Sybase IQ 15.2 ESD 2.
This version of HP SH Optimizer includes the following fix. It was provided as a hotfix on the HP SH Optimizer 9.01 version.
| Defect | The HP SH Optimizer Content Pack loader fails to generate a .csv file used to mark the state of VMs as deleted or not deleted. This was due to additional characters in the scope_0_logical_0_mapper.xml file. |
| Fix | The additional characters in the scope_0_logical_0_mapper.xml file were removed which solved the problem. |
HP SH Optimizer requires one or more of the following licenses:
Note: In addition to applying the license on the HP SH Optimizer system, you must also apply the same license on the system on which you install HP SH Reporter. For information on how to install the license on the HP SH Reporter and the HP SH Optimizer systems, see the HP Service Health Optimizer Installation and Configuration Guide.
Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing HP SH Optimizer, are documented in the HP SH Optimizer Installation and Configuration Guide. This guide is located in the Documentation directory on your installation media. After installation, you can access the guide and this Release Notes from %ovinstalldir%\documentation\SHO\en and Start -> Programs -> HP SH Optimizer -> Documentation.
Note: You must install and configure HP SH Reporter before you install and use HP SH Optimizer. For information about the hardware and software requirements of HP SH Reporter, see the HP Service Health Reporter Installation and Configuration Guide on the HP Software Product Manuals web site.
Before installing HP SH Optimizer, make sure your system meets the following minimum requirements:
Hardware Requirements
| HP SH Optimizer Server | Processor Type: 2.00 GHz or higher (x64-bit) Intel Xeon or equivalent |
| Number of CPUs: 2 | |
| Physical Memory: 2 GB of RAM | |
| Free Disk Space: 1 GB | |
| HP SH Optimizer Content Pack | Free Disk Space required for this content pack: 10 GB per 500 nodes (VMs, VM hosts, and physical hosts) must be available on the server on which SybaseIQ database is installed. Note that you must install the HP SH Optimizer Content Pack on the server on which HP SH Reporter is installed. |
Software Requirements
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| Flash Player | Adobe Flash Player 9 or later |
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This release contains certain unresolved problems, some limitations, and workarounds to help solve certain problems. To view the updated list of known issues and limitations, check the latest version of this Release Notes document available at the HP Software Product Manuals web site.
| Problem | If HP SH Reporter fails to collect data from a vMA, HP SH Optimizer will not display the VMs and the VM Hosts that were discovered by the vMA. |
| Workaround | There is no workaround to resolve this problem. You must wait for the collection process to complete before you see the required data on the HP SH Optimizer screens. |
| Problem | The discovery of VMs and VM hosts by Virtual Infrastructure Smart Plug-in fails on a vMA virtual machine that manages large number of VMs or VM hosts. This in turn causes data loss for HP SH Optimizer. |
| Workaround | You must increase the collection response timeout interval for HP Operations agent installed on the vMA virtual machine. Follow these steps:
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| Problem | HP SH Optimizer recognizes the physical machine architecture based on the value of the HP Performance Agent metric GBL_MACHINE. Only the following values of this metric are recognized by HP SH Optimizer:
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| Workaround | If HP Performance Agent is reporting any string other than the one from the above list, you must add the new architecture string to the bso_stand_architecture table. To add the string, run the following command from the SybaseIQ client:
insert into bso_stand_architecture values ('<new architecture string>') |
| Problem | In the BSM Service and Operations Bridge deployment scenario, when automatic synchronization of topology occurs between BSM and HPOM for Windows, the synchronization process may sometimes create multiple Configuration Items (CIs) for the same VMs discovered by HPOM for Windows. Due to this, the history of the VMs available in the HP SH Reporter Performance Management Database is lost, and the Business Service to VM relationship available in the RTSM) database is also lost. |
| Workaround | None. |
| Problem | HP SH Optimizer uses.csv files to populate specific tables with VM activity information to indicate the active, powered-off, and deleted VMs in the data center. These .csv files are automatically loaded into the HP SH Reporter datawarehouse tables by the data processing job streams (ABC streams). If you restart the HP SH Reporter Collection Service on the HP SH Reporter Administration Console before the ABC streams have initiated the loading of the .csv files, such .csv files do not get loaded into the datawarehouse tables. This problem results in loss of data and display of unexpected VM activity information on the HP SH Optimizer User interface. |
| Workaround | Logon as Administrator to the system where you have installed HP SH Reporter. Manually copy the Config_0_LS_State_0_*.csv files from {PMDB_HOME}/stage/collection/failed_to_load folder to the {PMDB_HOME}/stage/ folder. You must then wait for the ABC stream to load this data in to the datawarehouse tables. |
HP SH Optimizer 9.10 integrates with HP SH Reporter 9.10.
HP SH Optimizer 9.10 can co-exist with HP SH Reporter 9.10 on the same system.
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