HP Insight Global Workload Manager 7.1 User Guide

Mode Two modes are available: advisory and managed. Advisory
mode allows you to see what CPU resource requests gWLM
would make for a workload—without actually affecting
resource allocation.
Advisory mode is not available for SRDs containing virtual
machines, psets, or fss groups due to the nature of these
compartments.
Use this mode when creating and fine-tuning your policies.
Once you are comfortable with your policies, use managed
mode to have gWLM automatically adjust the resource
allocations for your defined workloads.
You can only set the mode on the SRD level. All workloads
within an SRD operate in the same mode, either advisory
or managed.
Deploy Enable gWLM control of an SRD.
Deploying an SRD in managed mode enables gWLM control
of resource allocation within the SRD. For example, in an
SRD based on a vPar that has psets for compartments,
deploying an SRD in managed mode allows gWLM to
actively migrate cores among psets. (A core is the actual
data-processing engine within a processor. A single
processor might have multiple cores.)
When deploying an SRD in advisory mode, gWLM simply
reports what the allocation would be—without actually
affecting resource allocations on a system.
Advisory mode is not available for SRDs containing virtual
machines, psets, or fss groups due to the nature of these
compartments.
8 Overview