HP StorageWorks XP Performance Advisor Software v4.6 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96094, June 2010)

Contents
1 Introduction to XP Performance Advisor ............................................... 15
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 15
2 Working with the XP Performance Advisor GUI .................................... 17
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 17
Title bar ............................................................................................................................ 18
Left pane ........................................................................................................................... 19
Right pane ........................................................................................................................ 19
Common tasks .......................................................................................................................... 19
Sorting records .................................................................................................................. 19
Resizing columns ................................................................................................................ 20
Resizing sections of XP Performance Advisor screens ............................................................... 20
Accessing existing functionalities from XP Performance Advisor v4.5 onwards ................................... 20
3 Managing licenses for XP arrays ........................................................ 23
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 23
License screen .......................................................................................................................... 25
Instant-on license on XP Performance Advisor installation ................................................................ 26
Instant-on license activation .................................................................................................. 27
Instant-on license expiration ................................................................................................. 27
Grace period expiration ...................................................................................................... 28
Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website ..................................................................... 29
Receiving a registration number for XP Performance Advisor ..................................................... 29
Generating licenses ............................................................................................................ 31
Installing licenses ............................................................................................................... 32
Viewing aggregate License status ................................................................................................ 33
Viewing status for individual licenses ..................................................................................... 33
License capacity ....................................................................................................................... 34
Removing licenses ..................................................................................................................... 35
4 Collecting configuration and performance data .................................. 37
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 37
Array View screen ..................................................................................................................... 38
Communicating with host agents ................................................................................................. 39
Requesting host agent updates ............................................................................................. 40
Removing host agent information from XP Performance Advisor ................................................. 41
Collecting configuration data ..................................................................................................... 42
One-time configuration data collection .................................................................................. 45
Scheduling configuration data collection ............................................................................... 46
Configuration collection schedules ................................................................................. 48
Deleting configuration data collection schedules ..................................................................... 49
Collecting performance data ...................................................................................................... 50
Creating performance data collection schedules ..................................................................... 52
Enabling performance collection schedules for automatic updates ...................................... 56
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