HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.3 Install Guide (T1789-96323, August 2011)

After installing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents
Verify the P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent services have started.
For more information, see Confirming the P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent
services on page 79.
Verify the P9000 Performance Advisor UNIX host agent services have started.
For more information, see Confirming the P9000 Performance Advisor UNIX host agent
services on page 81.
Verify that the respective host agent records are appearing in P9000 Performance Advisor on your
management station.
For more information, see “Verifying if the host agents appear in P9000 Performance
Advisor” on page 81.
Create and assign the Windows Global Unique Identifier (\\?\Volume{GUID}) to command devices on
a Windows host agent, to overcome device renaming and device remapping issues during the data
collections.
For more information, see “Assigning GUIDs for command devices on a Windows host
agent” on page 82.
Configure SSL settings on your Windows or UNIX host.
For more information, see “Configuring SSL settings for the P9000 Performance Advisor host
agents” on page 84.
Using P9000 Performance Advisor
Launch P9000 Performance Advisor and log in using your credentials.
For more information, see “Launching P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 65.
Start collecting the configuration and performance data for your XP and P9000 disk arrays.
For more information, see “Using P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 89.
Initial P9000 Performance Advisor setup prerequisites
This section describes setup prerequisites:
• “Designing the infrastructure” on page 19
• “Determining the coexistence with other storage products” on page 23
After you complete the prerequisites, perform the P9000 Performance Advisor management station
prerequisites. For more information, see “Management station prerequisites” on page 24.
Designing the infrastructure
This complete section needs to be reviewed for the new array, P9000.
The following procedure helps you to estimate the number of management stations, hosts, XP and the
P9000 disk arrays that are required:
1. Collecting information about the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that you will monitor on page 20
2. Determining the management station and host requirements on page 20
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