HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Performance improvement of storage system...................................................7
Performance Monitor ................................................................................................................7
Cache Residency .....................................................................................................................7
2 About monitoring performance.....................................................................8
Monitoring resource availability .................................................................................................8
Prestaging specific data ............................................................................................................8
Priority mode ..........................................................................................................................9
Bind mode ..............................................................................................................................9
3 Interoperability of Performance Monitor and other products............................12
Maintenance.........................................................................................................................12
Powering off the storage system ...............................................................................................12
Viewing the Monitor Performance window ................................................................................12
Viewing the WWN monitoring data ........................................................................................13
Replacing the microcode ........................................................................................................13
Changing the time setting of SVP..............................................................................................13
Using Performance Control.......................................................................................................13
4 Monitoring CUs ......................................................................................15
Displaying CUs to be monitored ..............................................................................................15
Adding or removing CUs to be monitored .................................................................................15
Selecting CUs to be monitored from parity group .......................................................................15
Confirming the status of CUs to be monitored ............................................................................16
5 Monitoring WWNs .................................................................................17
Displaying WWNs to be monitored .........................................................................................17
Adding or removing WWNs to be monitored ...........................................................................17
Adding new WWNs to ports ..................................................................................................17
Editing the WWN nickname ...................................................................................................18
Connecting WWNs to ports ...................................................................................................18
Deleting WWNs from monitoring target objects ........................................................................19
6 Monitoring operation................................................................................20
Performing Monitoring Operation.............................................................................................20
Starting monitoring ................................................................................................................20
Stopping monitoring ..............................................................................................................20
7 Setting statistical storage ranges ................................................................22
About statistical storage ranges ...............................................................................................22
Viewing statistics ...............................................................................................................22
Setting the storing period of statistics ........................................................................................22
8 Working with graphs ...............................................................................24
Basic operation .....................................................................................................................24
Objects that can be displayed in graphs ...................................................................................25
Usage rates of processor blade(s) ............................................................................................26
Usage rate of a data recovery and reconstruction processor ........................................................26
Usage rate of cache memory ..................................................................................................27
Write pending statistics ..........................................................................................................27
Access paths usage statistics ...................................................................................................28
Throughput of storage system ..................................................................................................29
Size of data transferred ..........................................................................................................30
Response times.......................................................................................................................31
Cache hit rates ......................................................................................................................32
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