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make provisioning decisions. HP XP7 Performance Advisor displays usage data for the following
components:

Parity groups or RAID groups

MP blade processors or MP blades

Logical Devices or LDEVs

Host groups

NOTE:

This section covers tasks that must be completed to launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor

from HP XP7 Remote Web Console. For more information on Remote Web Console, see the product
documentation.

The following workflow describes the tasks to launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor from HP XP7
Remote Web Console:
1.

Downloading the PA_Link_Launch_Configuration_Files.zip file from HP XP7
Performance

Advisor and copying the contents of the zip file to the XP/XP7 disk array

SVP.

The zip file contains configuration files (.xml) to launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor

from

HP XP7 Remote Web Console.

For

more information, see

“Downloading

and copying zip file contents to XP/XP7 disk

array

SVP” (page 344)

.

2.

Updating the HP XP7 Performance Advisor management station IP address in the
appDefinition.xml

file.

For more information, see

“Updating the management station IP address and session name”

(page 344)

.

3.

Establishing connection between HP XP7 Performance Advisor and HP XP7 Remote Web
Console.

For more information, see

“Establishing connection between HP XP7 Performance Advisor

and HP XP7 Remote Web Console” (page 345)

.

4.

Logging into HP XP7 Remote Web Console and launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor.

For more information, see

“Launching HP XP7 Performance Advisor” (page 346)

.

After launching HP XP7 Performance Advisor, you can view the usage data of MP blades, parity
groups,

logical devices, and host groups.

Downloading

and copying zip file contents to XP/XP7 disk array SVP

1.

On the title bar, click Support to navigate to the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Support screen.

2.

Download the PA_Link_Launch_Configuration_Files.zip file to your management
station or the system from where you accessed the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Support
screen. The file is available under PA link and launch from RWC on the HP XP7 Performance
Advisor Support screen.

The PA_Link_Launch_Configuration_Files.zip file consists of the following XML
files that are required to launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor.

appDefinition.xml

appProfile.xml

The readme.txt provides steps to launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor.

3.

Extract

the PA_Link_Launch_Configuration_Files.zipfile and copy the contents to

the

XP/XP7 disk array SVP.

Updating the management station IP address and session name

1.

Navigate

to the folder on your XP/XP7 disk array SVP where you copied the XML files.

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