HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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HP XP7 Performance Advisor Software User
Guide(v6.1)

Abstract

This document describes how to use the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Software product and includes information about user
tasks and troubleshooting. This document is intended for users and HP service providers who have knowledge of the HP XP7
Performance Advisor and XP7 disk arrays hardware, software, and storage systems. For the latest information about this product,
see the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Software Release Notes.

HP Part Number: T1789-96361
Published: May 2014
Edition: 22

Table of contents

Document Outline

HP XP7 Performance Advisor Software User Guide(v6.1)
Contents
1 Introduction to HP XP7 Performance Advisor
- Overview
2 Working with the HP XP7 Performance Advisor GUI
- Introduction
- Common tasks
3 Managing licenses for XP and XP7 disk arrays
- Introduction
- License screen
- Instant-on license on HP XP7 Performance Advisor installation
- HP XP7 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 HP XP7 Performance Advisor
- Collecting configuration data
- Collecting performance data
5 Configuring common settings for HP XP7 Performance Advisor
- Introduction
- Configuring email and SNMP settings
- Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9500/XP7 disk arrays
- Registering the XP or P9500/XP7 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP7 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 HP XP7 Performance Advisor services fail
- Managing custom groups
- Managing fabricated LDEV records
- Managing HP XP7 Performance Advisor user profiles
  - Creating and editing user profiles
  - Viewing group properties
6 Monitoring performance of XP and P9500/XP7 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 HP XP7 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 P9500/XP7 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 XP7 disk array components
- Introduction
- Viewing performance summary
- Viewing XP and P9500/XP7 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 P9500/XP7 disk arrays
- Viewing Smart and ThP pools data for P9500/XP7 disk arrays
- Viewing continuous access data for XP and XP7 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 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 XP7 disk arrays
- Troubleshooting using host group or WWN
14 Launching HP XP7 Performance Advisor from other Storage products
- Introduction
- Launching HP XP7 Performance Advisor from HP XP7 Tiered Storage Manager
  - Viewing performance graphs for LDEVs
  - Viewing performance graphs for RAID groups
- Launching HP XP7 Performance Advisor from HP XP7 Remote Web Console
15 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
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