HP XP RAID Manager Software User Manual
HP Storage
HP XP P9000 Performance for Open and
Mainframe Systems User Guide
Abstract
This guide describes and provides instructions for using HP XP P9000 Performance Monitor Software and HP XP P9000 Cache
Residency Manager Software to configure and perform operations on HP XP P9000 disk arrays. The intended audience is a
storage system administrator or authorized service provider with independent knowledge of HP XP P9000 disk arrays and the
HP StorageWorks Remote Web Console.
HP Part Number: AV400-96634
Published: March 2014
Edition: Twelfth
Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP XP P9000 Performance for Open and Mainframe Systems User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Performance overview
- 2 About performance monitoring
- 3 Interoperability of Performance Monitor and other products
- 4 Monitoring WWNs
- 5 Monitoring CUs
- 6 Monitoring operation
- 7 Setting statistical storage ranges
- 8 Working with graphs
- Basic operation
- Objects that can be displayed in graphs
- Usage rates of MPs
- Usage rate of a data recovery and reconstruction processor
- Usage rate of cache memory
- Write pending statistics
- Access paths usage statistics
- Throughput of storage system
- Size of data transferred
- Response times
- Cache hit rates
- Back-end performance
- Hard disk drive usage statistics
- Hard disk drive access rates
- Business Copy usage statistics
- Detailed information of resources on top 20 usage rates
- 9 Changing display of graphs
- 10 Performance Control operations
- Overview of Performance Control operations
- If one-to-one connections link HBAs and ports
- If many-to-many connections link HBAs and ports
- Port tab operations
- WWN tab operations
- 11 Estimating cache size
- 12 Managing resident cache
- Cache Residency rules, restrictions, and guidelines
- Launching Cache Residency
- Viewing Cache Residency information
- Placing specific data into Cache Residency cache
- Placing LDEVs into Cache Residency cache
- Releasing specific data from Cache Residency cache
- Releasing LDEVs from Cache Residency cache
- Changing mode after Cache Residency is registered in cache
- 13 Troubleshooting
- 14 Support and other resources
- A Export Tool
- About the Export Tool
- Installing the Export Tool
- Using the Export Tool
- Export Tool command reference
- Exported files
- Monitoring data exported by the Export Tool
- Resource usage and write-pending rate statistics
- Parity groups, external volume groups, or V-VOL groups statistics
- Volumes in parity/external volume groups or V-VOL groups statistics
- Volumes in parity groups, external volume groups, or V-VOL groups (at volumes controlled by a particular CU)
- Port statistics
- Host bus adapters connected to ports statistics
- Volumes (LU) statistics
- All host bus adapters connected to ports
- MP blades
- Remote copy operations by Cnt Ac-S/Cnt Ac-S Z (whole volumes)
- Remote copy operations by Cnt Ac-S and Cnt Ac-S Z (for each volume (LU))
- Remote copy by Cnt Ac-S and Cnt Ac-S Z (volumes controlled by a particular CU)
- Remote copy by Cnt Ac-J and Cnt Ac-J Z (whole volumes)
- Remote copy by Cnt Ac-J and Cnt Ac-J Z (at journals)
- Remote copy by Cnt Ac-J and Cnt Ac-J Z (for each volume (LU))
- Remote copy by Cnt Ac-J and Cnt Ac-J Z (at volumes controlled by a particular CU)
- Causes of Invalid Monitoring Data
- Troubleshooting the Export Tool
- B Performance Monitor GUI reference
- Performance Monitor main window
- Edit Monitoring Switch wizard
- Monitor Performance window
- Edit CU Monitor Mode wizard
- View CU Matrix window
- Select by Parity Groups window
- Parity Group Properties window
- Edit WWN wizard
- Edit WWN Monitor Mode wizard
- Delete Unused WWNs window
- Add New Monitored WWNs wizard
- Add to Ports wizard
- Monitor window
- MP Properties window
- Edit Time Range window
- Edit Performance Objects window
- Add Graph window
- Wizard buttons
- Navigation buttons
- C Performance Control GUI reference
- D Cache Residency GUI reference
- Glossary
- Index