HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction to HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor........................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
2 Working with the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor GUI.............................11
Introduction............................................................................................................................11
Title bar............................................................................................................................11
Left pane..........................................................................................................................12
Right pane........................................................................................................................13
Common tasks.......................................................................................................................13
Sorting records..................................................................................................................13
Resizing columns...............................................................................................................14
Resizing sections of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor screens...............................................14
3 Managing licenses for XP and P9000 disk arrays.........................................15
Introduction............................................................................................................................15
License screen........................................................................................................................16
Instant-on license on HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation..............................................18
Instant-on license activation.................................................................................................18
Instant-on license expiration.................................................................................................19
Grace period expiration.....................................................................................................21
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor licenses...............................................................................21
Permanent licenses.............................................................................................................21
Meter Based Term licenses..................................................................................................22
Meter based Term license requirement.............................................................................23
Meter based Term license activation and consumption.......................................................24
Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website...................................................................29
Generating licenses............................................................................................................29
Installing licenses...............................................................................................................30
Viewing aggregate License status..............................................................................................32
Viewing status for individual licenses....................................................................................32
Viewing license history.......................................................................................................35
Exceeding Permanent licensed capacity and grace period...........................................................36
Exceeding Meter based Term licensed capacity and grace period................................................37
Violating licensed capacity......................................................................................................39
Removing licenses...................................................................................................................40
4 Collecting configuration and performance data............................................43
Introduction............................................................................................................................43
Array View screen..................................................................................................................44
Communicating with host agents..............................................................................................45
Requesting host agent updates.............................................................................................46
Removing host agent information from HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.................................47
Collecting configuration data...................................................................................................48
One-time configuration data collection.................................................................................52
Scheduling configuration data collection...............................................................................54
Configuration collection schedules...................................................................................57
Deleting configuration data collection schedules....................................................................58
Collecting performance data....................................................................................................59
Creating performance data collection schedules....................................................................63
Enabling performance collection schedules for automatic updates........................................67
Starting performance data collection in case of a disk failure..............................................68
Viewing performance data collection schedules.....................................................................68
Editing performance data collection schedules.......................................................................69
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