HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.2 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96315, June 2011)

13 Using Performance Estimator for XP disk arrays ................................ 339
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 339
Supported disk types for performance estimation .................................................................. 340
Supported disk sizes for performance estimation .................................................................. 340
Understanding Performance Estimator data .......................................................................... 340
Estimating performance for XP24000 and XP12000 Disk Arrays .................................................. 340
14 Troubleshooting issues for components associated with applications .... 343
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 343
Troubleshooting screen ...................................................................................................... 351
Associating applications and viewing components performance data ...................................... 344
Associating applications with hosts ........................................................................................... 345
Removing association between application and hosts .................................................................. 348
Searching for applications associated with components ............................................................... 349
Viewing performance or usage data for components ................................................................... 350
Viewing data for prominent set of metrics ............................................................................ 352
Viewing data for additional metrics .................................................................................... 355
Viewing variations in the LDEV response time ............................................................................. 358
Plotting charts ........................................................................................................................ 359
Example troubleshooting scenarios ............................................................................................ 360
15 Launching P9000 Application Performance Extender from P9000
Performance Advisor ......................................................................... 363
16 Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from other Storage products ... 365
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 365
Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from P9000 Tiered Storage Manager ................................. 365
Viewing performance graphs for LDEVs ............................................................................... 366
Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from P9000 Remote Web Console ..................................... 368
Downloading and copying zip file contents to P9000 disk array SVP ...................................... 368
Updating the management station IP address and session name ............................................. 369
Establishing connection between P9000 Performance Advisor and P9000 Remote Web
Console .......................................................................................................................... 370
Launching P9000 Performance Advisor ............................................................................... 371
Viewing MP blade usage data .................................................................................... 372
Viewing Parity Group data .......................................................................................... 374
Viewing Logical Device data ....................................................................................... 375
Viewing host group data ............................................................................................. 376
Sample on appDefinition.xml and appProfile.xml files ..................................................... 377
17 Troubleshooting P9000 Performance Advisor ................................... 381
Overview ............................................................................................................................... 381
HP tools for troubleshooting and visualizing data ........................................................................ 381
P9000 Performance Advisor log selection tool ............................................................................ 381
Alarms are not being sent by email ........................................................................................... 382
Average values are higher than maximum values ........................................................................ 383
Array type not seen in P9000Watch ......................................................................................... 383
Delays in alarm dispatch and email notification generation .......................................................... 383
Entries in the event log during database size modification ............................................................ 383
Event log not updating ............................................................................................................ 383
Host Agent: Verifying that it is operational ................................................................................. 384
Host does not appear in the management station ........................................................................ 385
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