HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.3 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96322, August 2011)

Contents
1 Introduction to P9000 Performance Advisor ......................................... 15
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 15
2 Working with the P9000 Performance Advisor GUI .............................. 17
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 17
Title bar ............................................................................................................................ 18
Left pane ........................................................................................................................... 18
Right pane ........................................................................................................................ 19
Common tasks .......................................................................................................................... 19
Sorting records .................................................................................................................. 19
Resizing columns ................................................................................................................ 19
Resizing sections of P9000 Performance Advisor screens ......................................................... 20
3 Managing licenses for XP and P9000 disk arrays ................................ 21
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 21
License screen .......................................................................................................................... 22
Instant-on license on P9000 Performance Advisor installation .......................................................... 24
Instant-on license activation .................................................................................................. 25
Instant-on license expiration ................................................................................................. 25
Grace period expiration ...................................................................................................... 27
P9000 Performance Advisor licenses ........................................................................................... 27
Permanent licenses ............................................................................................................. 28
Meter Based Term licenses ................................................................................................... 29
Meter based Term license requirement ............................................................................ 29
Meter based Term license activation and consumption ...................................................... 31
Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website ..................................................................... 36
Generating licenses ............................................................................................................ 36
Installing licenses ............................................................................................................... 37
Viewing aggregate License status ................................................................................................ 39
Viewing status for individual licenses ..................................................................................... 39
Viewing license history ........................................................................................................ 43
Exceeding Permanent licensed capacity and grace period ............................................................. 43
Exceeding Meter based Term licensed capacity and grace period ................................................... 44
Violating licensed capacity ........................................................................................................ 47
Removing licenses ..................................................................................................................... 47
4 Collecting configuration and performance data .................................. 51
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 51
Array View screen ..................................................................................................................... 52
Communicating with host agents ................................................................................................. 53
Requesting host agent updates ............................................................................................. 54
Removing host agent information from P9000 Performance Advisor .......................................... 55
Collecting configuration data ..................................................................................................... 56
One-time configuration data collection .................................................................................. 59
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