HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.2 Install Guide (T1789-96317, May 2011)

2 Understanding the P9000 Performance
Advisor installation prerequisites
This chapter describes the prerequisites to install the P9000 Performance Advisor software and the
host agents, and explains the installation checklist. For more information, see Table 2 on page 16.
To upgrade an existing version of P9000 Performance Advisor, see Table 8 on page 100.
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Installation checklist for installing P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 15
• “Initial P9000 Performance Advisor setup prerequisites” on page 19
• “Management station prerequisites” on page 24
• “P9000 Performance Advisor host agent prerequisites” on page 33
Installation checklist for installing P9000 Performance Advisor
The P9000 Performance Advisor provides an installation checklist that guides you through the
installation and initial collection of configuration, and performance data (see Table 2 on page 16).
This checklist is also available when you begin installation. For more information, see “Launching the
P9000 Performance Advisor checklist” on page 46.
The installation checklist contains prerequisites and tasks that you must address before:
1. Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor on a management station.
2. Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents on the respective hosts.
3. Logging into P9000 Performance Advisor and initiating configuration and performance data
collections.
NOTE:
• The installation checklist is available starting with P9000 Performance Advisor v4.6. Review the
checklist and complete only those items that are applicable to your current Storage Area Networks
setup. After you complete a particular item, select the adjacent check box to mark it complete to
indicate that you have verified all the items and are ready to install, and use P9000 Performance
Advisor. Keep the checklist open till you complete the installation and start using P9000 Performance
Advisor.
• If you are installing the product for the first time, HP recommends that you follow the sequence of
items mentioned in the checklist.
• Links to the related help topics are provided at the end of each checklist item. Click the link to view
more information about the prerequisite or task.
• A copy of the installation checklist is also available in the <Installation_Drive>:\HPSS\
cs_help folder. You can also use %HPSS_HOME% at Start > Run to locate the HPSS folder. The
HPSS_HOME environment variable must be configured on your management station.
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