XPWatch and XPSketch Reference guide for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor

Contents
1 Introduction to HP XP P9000Watch...............................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
HP XP P9000Watch environment................................................................................................7
Functional representation...........................................................................................................7
2 Installing HP XP P9000Watch......................................................................8
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................8
Installing HP XP P9000Watch....................................................................................................8
Accessing HP XP P9000Watch.................................................................................................10
Interactive mode................................................................................................................10
CLI mode..........................................................................................................................10
Removing HP XP P9000Watch.................................................................................................11
Components..........................................................................................................................12
3 Working with HP XP P9000Watch menus and commands.............................16
Commands............................................................................................................................16
Executing commands in Interactive mode..............................................................................16
Executing commands in CLI mode........................................................................................18
Menus...................................................................................................................................20
Array menu.......................................................................................................................20
Sync/Async Metrics...........................................................................................................21
Viewing Sync/Async metrics...........................................................................................22
Clearing P-VOL or S-VOL selection...................................................................................23
CA Journal Metrics.............................................................................................................23
Viewing CA Journal metrics............................................................................................24
Clearing CTG selection..................................................................................................24
Host Group Metrics............................................................................................................24
Viewing Host Group Metrics...........................................................................................25
Host Groups.................................................................................................................25
Viewing Host Groups................................................................................................26
Selecting Host Groups...............................................................................................26
Clearing Host Groups...............................................................................................28
Nickname menu............................................................................................................28
Assigning nicknames................................................................................................29
Renaming nicknames................................................................................................30
Deleting nicknames...................................................................................................31
Port menu.....................................................................................................................32
Viewing Port menu....................................................................................................33
Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme.......................................................................33
Viewing Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme......................................................33
RAID Group menu.........................................................................................................33
Viewing RAID Group menu........................................................................................34
LDEV menu...................................................................................................................34
Viewing LDEV menu..................................................................................................35
Settings menu...............................................................................................................35
Menu settings..........................................................................................................36
Performance data collection settings............................................................................36
4 Viewing performance metrics in HP XP P9000Watch....................................38
Collecting performance metrics.................................................................................................38
Understanding performance metrics..........................................................................................40
Sync/Async Metrics...........................................................................................................41
P-VOL S-VOL Configuration.............................................................................................41
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