HP XP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software - Manual (Page 9)

2 Upgrading P9000 Application
Performance Extender
This chapter describes the procedure to upgrade the P9000 Application Performance Extender
management station and controller in your SAN environment.
IMPORTANT:
Before upgrading to APEX 2.1.1, ensure that APEX 2.1 is installed and operational.
The P9000 Application Performance Extender installer kit includes the following:
• P9000 Application Performance Extender management station (P9000APEX_MS.exe) — Install
on a host running on Windows.
• P9000 Application Performance Extender controller (HP-UX and Linux x86 and x86_64 —
P9000APEX_Controller.bin
) (Linux IA64 — P9000APEX_ControllerIA64.bin) (Windows
– P9000APEX_Controller.exe — Install on all the hosts (HP-UX, Linux, and Windows).
For information on supported software and hardware platforms, see the following documents:
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Application Performance Extender v2.1.1 Release Notes
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Application Performance Extender v2.1 Support Matrix
.
NOTE:
•
P9000 Application Performance Extender supports one controller per XP or P9500 disk array.
For multiple XP and P9500 disk arrays, multiple instances of the controller on different hosts ac-
cessing each of the arrays are required.
• HP recommends that you reserve a dedicated port for command devices.
• Ensure that SOM696 and SOM716 are enabled on the XP disk arrays, and SOM696 is enabled
on the P9500 disk arrays.
For unsupported upgrade paths, the previous version must be removed first. After removing the previous
version, install APEX 2.1 and then upgrade to APEX 2.1.1. For supported upgrade paths, you do not
have to remove the earlier version before upgrading to the latest version. For details about the supported
upgrade paths, see the following sections:
• Management station upgrade support
• Controller upgrade support
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