HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.4 Release Notes (T1789-96331, April 2012)

Minimum firmware versionXP and P9000 disk arrays
1.16.02 or later
P9000/XP RAID Manager Library (RMLIB) (P9000,
XP24000, XP12000, XP10000, and SVS200)
NOTE:
P9000 Performance Advisor v5.4 supports all the hard disks that are supported by XP and P9000
(P9500) disk arrays. HP recommends that you should install or upgrade the latest RMLIB version to
obtain new features.
Operating systems and JRE requirements
The list of operating systems supported by the P9000 Performance Advisor management station and
host systems is updated. To view the latest list, see the latest HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance
Advisor Software OS Support Matrix available at www.hp.com/go/PerformanceAdvisor-support-docs
In addition, the support matrix includes the supported Internet Explorer (IE) and Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) versions.
IMPORTANT:
You must install JRE before installing P9000 Performance Advisor host agents, except Windows and
OpenVMS.
Languages
P9000 Performance Advisor is available only in English.
New features
P9000 Performance Advisor v5.4 includes the following new features:
• P9000 Performance Advisor host agent support for RHEL 6.1 platform
• Support for OpenVMS IA 64 version 8.4
• Smart pool metrics
• Support for Replications (Sync/Async/CA Journal) metrics
• Support for Performance Advisor GUI on Internet Explorer 9
P9000Watch new features
P9000Watch v5.4 includes the following new features:
• Support for RHEL 6.1 platform
• Support for Replications (Sync/Async/CA Journal) metrics
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