HP StorageWorks P9000 Application Performance Extender Software User Guide (5697-0984, September 2012)

5 Using P9000 Application Performance
Extender
Using P9000 Application Performance Extender involves the following tasks:
1. Identifying applications and hosts.
• For application level performance differentiation across applications on an HP UX 11.31
server:
• Identify the critical applications running on the host that you want to assign SLOs to
• Assign applications on your hosts to different Process Resource Manager (PRM) groups.
For more information on assigning applications to PRM groups, see Appendix
B on page 103.
• For host level performance differentiation across hosts running applications on Windows or
Linux servers:
• Identify the hosts (running the critical applications) that you want to assign SLOs to
• For ESX host/Guest level performance differentiation on ESX Servers:
• Identify the hosts that you want to assign SLOs to
• Configure NPIV for identified Guest VM
2. Launching the P9000 Application Performance Extender software.
3. Discovering hosts (with Fibre Channel HBAs and connected storage arrays) from the management
station.
4. Collecting host configuration data.
5. Setting the command device(s) for the controller.
6. Creating a profile and defining target Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the workloads identified.
7. Assigning the profile to an array.
8. Adding workloads.
9. Enabling the controller.
10. Viewing and monitoring workload performance.
11. Modifying the defined SLOs to achieve the desired bandwidth or latency, if required.
Using P9000 Application Performance Extender to balance MP blade utilization involves the following
tasks:
1. Discovering hosts (with Fibre Channel HBAs and connected storage arrays) from the management
station.
2. Collecting host configuration data.
3. Setting the command device(s) for the controller.
4. Enabling the load balancing option.
5. Viewing and monitoring utilization graphs.
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