P9000Watch and P9000Sketch Reference guide for HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor v5.4 (T1789-96332, April 2012)

Contents
1 Introduction to P9000Watch ................................................................ 9
Overview ................................................................................................................................... 9
P9000Watch environment ......................................................................................................... 10
Functional representation ........................................................................................................... 10
2 Installing P9000Watch ..................................................................... 13
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 13
Installing P9000Watch .............................................................................................................. 13
Accessing P9000Watch ............................................................................................................ 15
Interactive mode ................................................................................................................. 15
CLI mode .......................................................................................................................... 15
Removing P9000Watch ............................................................................................................. 16
Components ............................................................................................................................ 16
3 Working with P9000Watch menus and commands .............................. 19
Commands .............................................................................................................................. 19
Executing commands in Interactive mode ............................................................................... 19
Executing commands in CLI mode ........................................................................................ 21
Menus ..................................................................................................................................... 24
Array menu ....................................................................................................................... 24
Sync/Async Metrics ............................................................................................................ 25
Viewing Sync/Async metrics .......................................................................................... 27
Clearing P-VOL or S-VOL selection .................................................................................. 27
CA Journal Metrics ............................................................................................................. 27
Viewing CA Journal metrics ........................................................................................... 29
Clearing CTG selection ................................................................................................. 29
Host Group Metrics ............................................................................................................ 29
Viewing Host Group Metrics .......................................................................................... 29
Host Groups ................................................................................................................ 29
Nickname menu .......................................................................................................... 33
Port menu ................................................................................................................... 37
Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme ...................................................................... 39
RAID Group menu ....................................................................................................... 40
LDEV menu ................................................................................................................. 41
Settings menu .............................................................................................................. 42
4 Viewing performance metrics in P9000Watch ..................................... 45
Collecting performance metrics ................................................................................................... 45
Understanding performance metrics ............................................................................................ 47
Sync/Async Metrics ............................................................................................................ 48
P-VOL S-VOL Configuration ............................................................................................ 49
P-VOL S-VOL LDEV performance metrics .......................................................................... 50
P-VOL S-VOL RAID Group performance metrics ................................................................ 50
P-VOL S-VOL CLPR performance metrics .......................................................................... 51
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