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

Contents
1 Overview of P9000 Performance Advisor .............................................. 9
P9000 Performance Advisor resources ........................................................................................... 9
Installation work flow ................................................................................................................. 12
Upgrade work flow ................................................................................................................... 13
2 Understanding the P9000 Performance Advisor installation
prerequisites ....................................................................................... 15
Installation checklist for installing P9000 Performance Advisor ........................................................ 15
Initial P9000 Performance Advisor setup prerequisites ................................................................... 19
Designing the infrastructure .................................................................................................. 20
Determining the coexistence with other storage products .......................................................... 23
Management station prerequisites ............................................................................................... 24
Verifying the supported configurations for P9000 Performance Advisor ...................................... 24
Getting the fully qualified domain name or IP address of your management station ..................... 26
Determining the authentication type for P9000 Performance Advisor ......................................... 26
Allocating 1 GB free disk space in the TEMP folder ................................................................ 29
Choosing a system where Oracle is not installed .................................................................... 29
Configuring a Loopback Adapter or static IP address .............................................................. 30
Assigning ports for P9000 Performance Advisor on the management station .............................. 31
Increasing the virtual memory on your management station ...................................................... 32
Disabling UAC on a Windows management station ................................................................ 32
Configuring the web browser proxy server settings .................................................................. 33
P9000 Performance Advisor host agent prerequisites ..................................................................... 33
Verifying the supported configurations for P9000 Performance Advisor host agents ..................... 34
Configuring settings on Windows and UNIX hosts .................................................................. 35
Creating and presenting command devices to hosts ................................................................ 36
Mapping command devices ................................................................................................ 39
Verifying host agent connectivity to a command device ........................................................... 41
3 Installing P9000 Performance Advisor ................................................. 43
Beginning the P9000 Performance Advisor installation .................................................................. 43
Launching the P9000 Performance Advisor checklist ...................................................................... 46
Complying with the End User License Agreement .......................................................................... 46
Retaining or selecting a different database location ....................................................................... 47
Enabling IPv6 and configuring HTTP port for the management station .............................................. 47
Implementing the authentication method ...................................................................................... 48
P9000 Performance Advisor Native Authentication ................................................................. 49
Windows System Authentication ........................................................................................... 49
Windows Domain based Authentication ................................................................................ 49
LDAP Authentication ........................................................................................................... 50
Configuring the LDAP server and connection settings ........................................................ 51
Configuring the LDAP user search and filter, and group settings ......................................... 52
RADIUS Authentication ........................................................................................................ 54
Selecting complete or custom installation method .......................................................................... 56
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