HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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XP Performance Advisor Software XP P9500 Storage

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HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software User Guide
Contents
1 Introduction to P9000 Performance Advisor
- Overview
2 Working with the P9000 Performance Advisor GUI
- Introduction
- Common tasks
3 Managing licenses for XP and P9000 disk arrays
- Introduction
- License screen
- Instant-on license on P9000 Performance Advisor installation
- P9000 Performance Advisor licenses
  - Permanent licenses
  - Meter Based Term licenses
    - Meter based Term license requirement
    - Meter based Term license activation and consumption
- Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website
  - Generating licenses
  - Installing licenses
- Viewing aggregate License status
  - Viewing status for individual licenses
  - Viewing license history
- Exceeding Permanent licensed capacity and grace period
- Exceeding Meter based Term licensed capacity and grace period
- Violating licensed capacity
- Removing licenses
4 Collecting configuration and performance data
- Introduction
- Array View screen
- Communicating with host agents
  - Requesting host agent updates
  - Removing host agent information from P9000 Performance Advisor
- Collecting configuration data
- Collecting performance data
5 Configuring common settings for P9000 Performance Advisor
- Introduction
- Configuring email and SNMP settings
- Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9000 disk arrays
- Registering the XP or P9000 disk array SVP IP address in P9000 Performance Advisor
- Setting the severity level for events
- Setting time zone for management station
- Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time
- Receiving email notifications when P9000 Performance Advisor services fail
- Managing custom groups
- Managing fabricated LDEV records
- Managing P9000 Performance Advisor user profiles
  - Creating and editing user profiles
  - Viewing group properties
6 Monitoring performance of XP and P9000 disk arrays
- Introduction
- Configuring dashboard threshold settings
  - Specifying the top 20 consumers
- Dashboard threshold metrics
- Viewing dashboard
7 Configuring alarms and managing events
- Introduction
  - Configuring alarms and viewing alarms history
- Selecting components and metrics
- Configuring notification and monitoring settings
- Searching for components
- Managing alarms history
- Viewing events
  - Filtering event records
  - Deleting event records
8 Managing the P9000 Performance Advisor database
- Introduction
- Database Manager screen
- Configuring database size
  - Automatically increasing database size
  - Manually increasing database size
- Purging data
  - Manually purging data
    - Purging data for XP or P9000 disk array
    - Purging older data
  - Automatically purging data
- Creating and viewing Export DB CSV files
- Archiving data
- Importing data
- Deleting logs for archival and import activities
- Migrating data to another management station
- Determining disk space requirements
9 Viewing XP and P9000 disk array components
- Introduction
- Viewing performance summary
- Viewing XP and P9000 disk array summary
  - Volume Information
- Viewing utilization summary
- Viewing cache and CLPR utilization
  - Advisory on CLPR utilization
- Viewing CHIP/CHA data
- Viewing ACP/DKA data
- Viewing MP blade utilization for P9000 disk arrays
- Viewing Smart and ThP pools data for P9000 disk arrays
- Viewing continuous access data for P9000 disk arrays
  - CA link status metrics
- Viewing 10 busiest LDEVs and Ports
- Viewing 10 busiest LDEVs and RAID groups
- Viewing RAID group summary
- Viewing port summary
- Viewing 90th and 95th percentile values for Continuous Access ports
- Viewing LDEV data
- Viewing LDEV data in custom groups
10 Using charts
- Introduction
- Charts screen
- Plotting charts
11 Using reports
- Introduction
- Types of reports
- Create/Schedule Reports screen
- Generating, saving, or scheduling reports
- Creating report for busiest LDEVs and RAID groups
- Creating an LDEV Activity report
- Creating report to view the most utilized RAID Groups
- Viewing reports
- Deleting reports
- Virtualization for reports
- Enabling email notifications
- Editing report schedules
- Deleting report schedules
- Understanding report records
- Understanding report schedule records
- Logging report details and exceptions
12 Using Performance Estimator for XP and P9000 disk arrays
- Introduction
- Estimating performance for XP12000 Disk Arrays
- Estimating performance for XP24000 or P9500 Disk Array
13 Troubleshooting issues for components associated with applications
- Troubleshooting using real-time performance data from XP and P9000 disk arrays
- Troubleshooting using host group or WWN
14 Launching P9000 Application Performance Extender from P9000 Performance Advisor
15 Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from other Storage products
- Introduction
- Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from P9000 Tiered Storage Manager
  - Viewing performance graphs for LDEVs
  - Viewing performance graphs for RAID groups
- Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from P9000 Remote Web Console
16 Support and other resources
- Contacting HP
- Related information
- Typographic conventions
A Appendix A
- Storage management logical partitions (SLPRs)
- Cache logical partitions (CLPRs)
B Sample reports
- Report types
C Appendix C
- Supportability matrix
D Appendix D
- Array mapping
E Metric Category, metrics, and descriptions
- Metrics and descriptions
- Real-time metrics and descriptions
F Appendix F
- Forecasting ThP pool performance
  - Guidelines for selecting data range to receive an optimal forecast
Glossary
Index