How to Add a Device in the Hardware Editor

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The procedures in this topic provide three methods of using the Hardware Editor to add a hardware device to the hardware library. After it is added, the device configuration can be applied to a computer configuration.

Note

Some software components modeled by Capacity Planner require 64-bit processors.

Capacity Planner device configurations are definitions of CPUs, single disks, and disk arrays. Specifically, Capacity Planner models devices as follows:

  • A CPU device can include multiple physical processors.
  • A disk configuration is a single physical disk.
  • A disk group can contain up to 64 individual disks. A disk group is also called a volume. RAID is applied at disk group level.
  • A disk array includes at least one disk group of previously defined disks. Each disk array can have multiple disks, reflected in the Disk Count column. A disk array can contain up to 16 disk groups.

For a list of other tasks you can perform with the Capacity Planner Hardware Editor, see Capacity Planner Hardware Editor.

To add a CPU hardware device in the Hardware Editor

  1. Navigate to the Device configurations page.

  2. In the view list, click CPU, and then click New Device.

  3. In the Properties of device <DeviceName> action dialog, enter all required information about the CPU.

To add a disk hardware device in the Hardware Editor

  1. Navigate to the Device configurations page.

  2. In the view list, click Single Disk, and then click New Device.

  3. In the Properties of device <DeviceName> action dialog, enter all required information about the disk.

To add a disk array in the Hardware Editor

  1. Navigate to the Device configurations page.

  2. In the view list, click Disk Array, and then click New Device.

  3. In the Properties of device <DeviceName> action dialog, click the disk configuration that you want to add, and then click Add Disk to create a disk group.

  4. Specify other values for the disk group including Stripe Unit Size (KB) and RAID Level.

  5. If you need to modify the number of disks in the group being added, click the value in Disk Count, and then type the number of disks in the group.

  6. Repeat steps 3–5 until all disk groups have been added to the disk array configuration.

See Also

Concepts

About the Capacity Planner Hardware Editor

Other Resources

Hardware Editor Tasks
Hardware Editor Reference Topics