HP StorageWorks XP Performance Advisor Software v4.6 Install Guide (T1789-96096, July 2010)

Contents
1 Overview of XP Performance Advisor .................................................... 9
XP Performance Advisor resources ................................................................................................. 9
Installation work flow ................................................................................................................. 12
Upgrade work flow ................................................................................................................... 13
2 Understanding the XP Performance Advisor installation prerequisites ....... 15
Installation checklist for installing XP Performance Advisor .............................................................. 15
Initial XP Performance Advisor setup prerequisites .......................................................................... 19
Designing the infrastructure .................................................................................................. 19
Determining the coexistence with other storage products .......................................................... 23
Management station prerequisites ............................................................................................... 23
Verifying the supported configurations for XP Performance Advisor ............................................ 23
Getting the fully qualified domain name or IP address of your management station ..................... 25
Determining the authentication type for XP Performance Advisor ............................................... 26
Creating 1 GB of free disk space ......................................................................................... 28
Choosing a system where Oracle is not installed .................................................................... 28
Configuring a Loopback Adapter or static IP address .............................................................. 29
Switching the IIS Admin service to manual start mode ............................................................. 29
Assigning port 80 for XP Performance Advisor ....................................................................... 29
Disabling the UAC on a Windows Vista management station ................................................... 30
Configuring firewall settings on a Windows XP Professional management station ........................ 30
Configuring the web browser proxy server settings .................................................................. 31
Assigning GUIDs for command devices on a Windows host ..................................................... 31
XP Performance Advisor host agent prerequisites ........................................................................... 33
Verifying the supported configurations for XP Performance Advisor host agents ........................... 33
Configuring settings on Windows and UNIX hosts .................................................................. 34
Creating and presenting command devices to hosts ................................................................ 35
Mapping command devices from virtual servers ..................................................................... 38
Verifying host connectivity to a command device .................................................................... 39
Configuring SSL settings for the XP Performance Advisor host agents ......................................... 39
3 Installing XP Performance Advisor ....................................................... 45
Beginning the XP Performance Advisor installation ......................................................................... 45
Launching the XP Performance Advisor checklist ............................................................................ 47
Complying with the End User License Agreement .......................................................................... 48
Retaining or selecting a different database location ....................................................................... 48
Enabling IPv6 on your management station .................................................................................. 49
Implementing the authentication method ...................................................................................... 50
XP Performance Advisor Native Authentication ....................................................................... 51
Windows System Authentication ........................................................................................... 51
Windows Domain based Authentication ................................................................................ 51
LDAP Authentication ........................................................................................................... 52
Configuring the LDAP server and connection settings ........................................................ 53
Configuring the LDAP user search and filter, and group settings ......................................... 54
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