Introduction

Introduction to HP Service Health Optimizer

HP Service Health Optimizer (SHO) is a business aware capacity management and planning tool for virtualized environments. It enables you to assess the impact of the infrastructure on the different services running in your IT environment. Based on the historical IT resource usage trends and available capacity, SHO recommends ways to optimize your current server and storage resources without impacting the class of service.

Features of SHO are:

You can use SHO to perform the following tasks:

Task Help Topic

View a summarized or detailed analysis of your existing infrastructure that helps you improve the efficiency of resources by optimal sizing and placement of the VMs.

Additionally, SHO helps you understand your current server and storage capacity, usage, and

Gaining Visibility into Your Infrastructure

View recommendations for optimal VM and vDisk sizing and placement based on different optimization scenarios that you create.

Note: These scenarios include the business or infrastructure constraints that might arise for each of the scenarios.

Optimizing Your Infrastructure

Project future capacity utilization levels of different resources for a predefined time period.

Identify VM resources whose capacity utilization could reach the configured thresholds in the near future.

Estimate the future capacity utilizations in order to proactively plan your hardware requirements.

Forecasting and Capacity Planning
Create on-demand placement scenarios. Based on these scenarios, SHO provides recommendations about placing VMs on the selected Hosts or Clusters without affecting the existing VM placement. On Demand Placement
You can launch reports for the Executive Summary View, Forecast Summary View, Optimization Analysis results, and On Demand Placement results. Click to launch the reports from the respective views.

Note: The recommended screen resolution for viewing the SHO users' interface is 1600 x 900 pixels. If the screen resolution is less than 1600 x 900 pixels, then few components of the SHO users' interface will not be displayed.


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