The Executive Summary and Detailed views display the infrastructure information of the available x86/x64 servers. Depending on the environment where HP Service Health Optimizer (SHO) is deployed, SHO divides the available infrastructure into logical Groups.
The Executive Summary displays the infrastructure details for the time period for which the data is available in the database.
Click the Group icon in the Executive Summary view to view a more detailed analysis in the Detailed view. Detailed view displays the available capacity, utilization, and performance of server and storage under different types of grouping such as Business Services, Business Applications, OM Node Groups, Datastores, or VMware Clusters.
The Executive and Detailed views allow you to perform:
Usage analysis
Based on the usage statistics displayed in both the views, you can identify the over utilized and underutilized resources.
Risk analysis
The Executive and Detailed views also help you analyze the risks posed to your infrastructure due to undersized resources.
Optimization opportunity analysis
The Executive and Detailed views enable you to identify the optimization opportunity available for your resources. It helps you identify oversized and idle resources thus enabling you to optimize your IT environment.
Based on the overall health of the infrastructure, you can create different optimization scenarios for the Groups. For more information, see Creating Optimization Scenario.
If you want to identify existing VM hosts or VMware Clusters on which new VMs can be optimally placed, you can perform a quick analysis using the On Demand Placement feature SHO. For more information, see Creating On Demand Placement Scenario.
The Groups information is available in the following two views: