HP XP7 Performance Advisor v6.1 Software Best Practices Guide

2 General best practices for using Performance Advisor

• For Performance Advisor and Command View AE to coexist, ensure that the following minimum

prerequisites are met before you proceed with the Performance Advisor installation:

◦ 30 GB free space on hard drive

◦ 4 GHz CPU or Dual processor system with minimum 2 GHz CPU each

◦ 4 GB RAM

• HP recommends that the host system communicate with a maximum of three disk arrays (XP

and XP7 disk arrays) at a time.

• Ensure that you delete the HPSS folder from the management station before installing

Performance Advisor.

• HP recommends that there be at least a week's historic data available for the forecasting

feature to provide accurate results, when you forecast using charts or alarms.

• To efficiently utilize the HP XPWatch troubleshooting capabilities, avoid selecting the option

“ALL” from the available menus. HP XPWatch is designed for focused troubleshooting and

can capture data as frequently as every 10 seconds.

• HP recommends to install HP XP7 Performance Advisor management station on standalone

servers.

• HP recommends that you should stop host agent services before upgrading management

station, followed by host agent upgrade.