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HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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The following table describes the Performance View screen elements. The images shown are for
53036, which belongs to the P9500 Disk Array type.

Description

Performance View screen elements

General group box

DKC Time: Displays the time stamp
of the latest DKC performance data
collection

RAID Group Time: Displays the time
stamp of the latest RAID group
performance data collection

Port Time: Displays the time stamp
of the latest port performance data
collection

Click General to view the XP/XP7 disk
array utilization summary. For more
information, see

“Utilization

Summary” (page 183)

.

Displays the total I/Os and MB/s on
all the CHIP/CHA ports in the array
frontend. Click the Frontend Total Avg
group box to view the busiest frontend
LDEVs and ports. For more information,

Frontend Total Avg group box

see

“10 busiest

LDEVs/Ports” (page 208)

.

Displays the total sequential reads,
non-sequential reads and writes for all
the RAID groups in the array backend.
The array backend is the sum of all the
ACP pair activities. In addition, the
combined backend transfer value is
displayed (only for XP24000 and
P9500/XP7 disk arrays), which is the
sum of backend transfers on all the ThP
pools.

Click the Array Backend Total group
box to view the busiest backend LDEVs

Backend Total Avg group box

and RAID groups. For more information,
see

“10 busiest LDEVs/RAID

groups” (page 209)

.

Displays the cache usage, pending
writes, and the sidefile usage. For more
information, see

“Cache usage

chart” (page 184)

.

Cache [Total - ### MB] group box

For an XP disk array, the Bus/Path Util
% group box displays the CHIP/CHA
utilization and the ACP pair utilization
for the cache memory bus and the
shared memory bus.

Bus/Path Util % group box

For

an XP7 disk array, the Bus/Path

Util

% group box for the CHIP/CHA

utilization

and the ACP pair utilization

are

displayed under the

respective Frontend Total Avg group
box and the Backend Total Avg group
box.

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Viewing XP and XP7 disk array components