HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition 7.5.0-00 System Requirements (TB581-96355, July 2013)

Management server requirements

Table 1-10 Supported cluster environments

Architecture

Service Pack

Cluster software

x64 No SP

SP1

SP2

Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 No SP

SP1

Windows Server Failover

Clustering

Windows Server 2012 x64 No SP Windows Server Failover

Clustering

1-2-6 Related software

(1) Performance Advisor

By linking Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager to Performance Advisor, you can check

performance information of storage systems from the management client. You can check

performance information from the GUI Mobility tab. You can also check performance information

related to LDEVs or parity groups by launching the PA GUI window from the GUI. In addition, by

using the GUI or CLI client, you can check parity group usage. The following table describes the

software required to check performance information from management clients.

Table 1-11 Software required to check performance information from management clients

Software

Version

HP StorageWorks XP Performance Advisor

5.0

5.2

5.4

5.5

To link Tiered Storage Manager with Performance Advisor, the CLI library is required. To obtain

performance information from Performance Advisor, you need to specify the installation directory for

the Performance Advisor CLI in the PATH environment variable. If you do not specify the PATH

environment variable, an environment settings error will occur, and you will not be able to obtain the

performance information. For details on installing the CLI client library and setting up the

environment, see the HP Performance Advisor P9000 Software Command-Line User Interface

Reference Guide.

(2) P9000 mainframe agent

For managing mainframe host volumes, from Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager,

Mainframe Agent needs to be installed to a mainframe host. The versions of Mainframe Agent to be

supported by Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager are shown in the following table.

Table 1-12 Mainframe Agent version required to manage mainframe hosts

Software

Version

Referring mainframe volume data

6.0 or later