HP StorageWorks XP Application Performance Extender Software 1.0 Release Notes (5697-0473, June 2010)

Version: 1.0
Description
In a typical Storage Area Network (SAN) environment, multiple I/O intensive applications share
storage resources. Not all applications are mission critical, but they compete with the mission critical
applications for the same I/O processing requirements. In such situations, there is a need to keep the
key (mission critical) applications at a desired performance level and other (non critical) applications
at an acceptable performance level.
XP Application Performance Extender is a software that enables you to monitor, analyze and prioritize
the performance of critical applications running on XP20000 or XP24000 disk arrays.
XP disk array resources can be prioritized by application and time, so high-priority host traffic
experiences the best performance always.
XP Application Performance Extender is supported on HP-UX, Windows and Linux hosts connected
to XP disk arrays in a SAN.
Benefits
With XP Application Performance Extender, you can:
• Achieve SLO targets of mission critical applications
• Dynamically change SLO targets based on real time resource requirements of your mission critical
applications
• Service peak load SLOs of critical applications without additional hardware investments
• Add more applications to the XP disk array without penalizing the performance of mission critical
applications
• Get notified immediately about performance drops
Languages
XP Application Performance Extender is available only in English.
Software and hardware requirements
Table 1 describes the software and hardware required to install XP Application Performance Extender.
Table 1 Software and hardware requirements
XP24000 or XP20000 with Microcode version 60-02-04-00 or later
NOTE:
Ensure that you select an XP disk array which does not have Storage Logical
Partitions (SLPR) configured.
XP disk array mod-
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