For each goal specified in the Server Profile Options dialog box, Activity Trends displays the following information that you use to evaluate whether a server is a candidate for resource balancing:

• Current -- The current value of the metric as recorded.
• Capacity -- The resource capacities of each server. Resources are balanced using either capacity or target values. By default, the capacity is the value used in determining the targets during resource balancing. You set this value by editing server properties.
• Target -- The target value that you want to meet during resource balancing. This value is based on the statistics specified as primary and secondary goals. For example, if Notes Transactions is a goal, the value is the number of transactions. So, if a server has a target of 2000 transactions, the resource-balancing solution attempts to provide this server with 2000 transactions.
• Projected -- The calculated final value of the server's resource, if the generated solution (plan) were to be applied.
• Accuracy -- A percentage from 0 to 100 that represents how successfully the moves were made, based on the behavior criteria you specified. A low percentage is bad and a high percentage is good. Servers whose values are within the tolerance for the goal (set in server profile options) display in blue. Values that did not achieve the tolerance specified for the Goal display in red. This is not necessarily bad, sometimes it means you need to use other servers or that there is no good solution for this resource problem. In a good balance, there should be almost no red values for the primary goal, and perhaps a few ones for the secondary.

Related topics

Displaying additional statistics during resource balancing
Filtering servers used during resource balancing
Pinning additional databases during resource balancing
Understanding current and projected profile charts
Editing server properties for resource balancing

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