OpenVMS Support For HP P9000 Performance Advisor Whitepaper
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Intended Audience
- Verifying host connectivity to a command device
- Prerequisite
- Executing the OpenVMS Integrity Server host agent installer
- Confirming the P9000 Performance Advisor OpenVMS Integrity Server host agent services
- Verifying if the host agents appear in P9000 Performance Advisor
- Enable autostart for P9000PA services after every reboot of system
- Manual restart for P9000PA services
- Manual stop of P9000PA Services
- Glossary
- For more information
Introduction
OpenVMS (Open Virtual Memory System), previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or
(informally) VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based
families of computers. OpenVMS is a multi-user, multiprocessing virtual memory-based operating system
(OS) designed for use in time sharing, batch processing, real-time (where process priorities can be set
higher than OS kernel jobs), and transaction processing. It offers high system availability through clustering,
or the ability to distribute the system over multiple physical machines. This allows the system to be "disaster-
tolerant" against disasters that may disable individual data-processing facilities. VMS also includes a
process priority system that allows for real-time processes to run unhindered, while user processes get
temporary priority "boosts" if necessary.
HP P9000 Performance Advisor Software identifies performance bottlenecks before they impact your
business. It collects and displays performance data for HP P9000 Disk Arrays. It helps mitigate risk by
providing performance alarm notification through e-mail, SNMP, or user-defined scripts and helps avoid
impending outages due to unavailable or misallocated storage resources. Its report generation and
scheduling capability improves IT processes and maintains array performance by immediately identifying
storage bottlenecks.
There is support of Windows, Linux, HPUX, AIX and Solaris for HP P9000 Performance Advisor. The
support for OpenVMS is added from P9000PA 5.4 release. The support is for OpenVMS8.4 on Itanium
servers.
Intended Audience
a> Storage Administrators
b> HP support
Verifying host connectivity to a command device
Before you begin the host agent installation, you must create and assign command devices, so that the
connectivity is established between the P9000 disk arrays and your host agent. If a command device is not
created and presented to the host, the RAID Manager Library version is not displayed when you click
“Refresh Host” command button for an host agent update from P9000 Performance Advisor.
The steps to verify the command device is as follow:-
Set a variable for xpinfo.exe as below:-
xpinfo:==$SYS$SYSDEVICE:[VMS$COMMON.HEWLETTPACKARD.P9000HOSTSW.HOSTAGENT.SBIN]x
pinfo.exe
Execute command “xpinfo –i”. It will list all P9000 device presented to disk. The command device will
contain “-CM”. It will look similar as below:-
$ xpinfo -i
Device File ALPA Tgt Lun Port CU:LDev Type Serial#
===========================================================================
=====
_$1$GGA22: --- --- --- CL8D 00:16 OPEN-V 53040