Determine remaining resources in an Intelligent Infrastructure (II) resource pool

• Overview
• VM Information report
• Pool Information report
• Use the reports

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Overview

To determine whether you have sufficient resources in your Intelligent Infrastructure (II) VM's resource pool to expand resources on one or more of your VMs, you can generate one or both of the following reports in the II Self-Service environment.

VM Information report

Initiating a VM Information report creates a CSV document containing all VMs that belong to a particular organization. It will include various data about each VM such as number of CPUs, amount of memory and storage allocated, type of backups configured, OS, IP(s), and some additional metadata. To generate the report:

1. Log into the self-service portal; see Access the Intelligent Infrastructure self-service portal.
2. If prompted, select Service Broker, then the Consume tab, and then Catalog.
3. You'll see tiles representing different actions. Look for one labeled "Generate VM Information", and select Request.
4. If you are a member of more than one organization (labeled "Business Group" in the application), you will be prompted to select the desired organization to run this report for. The resulting report will reflect the VMs belonging to the organization specified.
5. When the form loads, if desired, specify an email address to receive the file; the default is the contact address of the organization.
6. Choose Submit. The system will generate the report and email it to the address you specified.

Pool Information report

Initiating a Pool Information report creates a CSV document containing all resource pools that belong to a particular organization. It will include data about each pool such as CPU_Maximum_Quota (total available CPUs for the resource pool) and CPU_Current_Usage (number of CPUs actually allocated to active VMs). It will include similar data for memory and storage, and some additional metadata. To generate the report:

1. Log into the self-service portal; see Access the Intelligent Infrastructure self-service portal.
2. If prompted, select Service Broker, then the Consume tab, and then Catalog.
3. You'll see tiles representing different actions. Look for one labeled "Generate Pool Information", and select Request.
4. If you are a member of more than one organization (labeled "Business Group" in the application), you will be prompted to select the desired organization to run this report for. The resulting report will reflect the pools belonging to the organization specified.
5. When the form loads, if desired, specify an email address to receive the file; the default is the contact address of the organization.
6. Choose Submit. The system will generate the report and email it to the address you specified.

Use the reports

The Pool Information report alone will help you identify any resource constraints. It can aid in general resource expansion planning on an annual, semi-annual, or monthly basis.

However, by combining the two together, you can do more specific resource planning. For example, using the VM report, you can identify the resource pool to which a VM belongs. Then, by using the Pool report, you can determine whether there is sufficient remaining capacity for a specific needed resource expansion on the VM.