HP System Reporter E-Media Kit manual Using the System Reporter Sizing Spreadsheet

3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide System Reporter 2.8

3.4 Using the System Reporter Sizing Spreadsheet

Before installing System Reporter, you need to determine the system resources that are required to adequately run System Reporter and the selected data base server. The optimal computing power (CPU cores), memory and storage space needed to accommodate the data that is sampled by System Reporter and used to generate reports depends on the number of systems and the amount of storage that is being monitored for your particular installation. An Excel spreadsheet named SR_Sizing.xls (Figure 3-1) is included with System Reporter for the purpose of determining the optimal system resources that are recommended for running System Reporter and the database server at your site. This spreadsheet is included on the installation CD.

NOTE: The System Reporter Sizing Spreadsheet is protected except for the cells in red, but you can turn off the protection to see the formulas that are used to derive a given value.

Entities in the spreadsheet are color coded. Only the values into controls or cells colored red need to be set. Cells or ranges in yellow are output values that you can use to size or configure the server that you will use to run System Reporter. Values in blue are empirically determined parameters used to drive the sizing model.

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Using the System Reporter Sizing Spreadsheet