HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.3 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96322, August 2011)

13 Using Performance Estimator for XP disk arrays ................................ 345
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 345
Supported disk types for performance estimation .................................................................. 346
Supported disk sizes for performance estimation .................................................................. 346
Understanding Performance Estimator data .......................................................................... 346
Estimating performance for XP24000 and XP12000 Disk Arrays .................................................. 346
14 Troubleshooting issues for components associated with applications .... 349
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 349
Troubleshooting screen ...................................................................................................... 357
Associating applications and viewing components performance data ...................................... 350
Associating applications with hosts ........................................................................................... 351
Removing association between application and hosts .................................................................. 354
Searching for applications associated with components ............................................................... 355
Viewing performance or usage data for components ................................................................... 356
Viewing data for prominent set of metrics ............................................................................ 358
Viewing data for additional metrics .................................................................................... 361
Viewing variations in the LDEV response time ............................................................................. 364
Plotting charts ........................................................................................................................ 365
Example troubleshooting scenarios ............................................................................................ 366
15 Launching P9000 Application Performance Extender from P9000
Performance Advisor ......................................................................... 369
16 Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from other Storage products ... 371
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 371
Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from P9000 Tiered Storage Manager ................................. 371
Viewing performance graphs for LDEVs ............................................................................... 372
Launching P9000 Performance Advisor from P9000 Remote Web Console ..................................... 374
Downloading and copying zip file contents to P9000 disk array SVP ...................................... 374
Updating the management station IP address and session name ............................................. 375
Establishing connection between P9000 Performance Advisor and P9000 Remote Web
Console .......................................................................................................................... 376
Launching P9000 Performance Advisor ............................................................................... 377
Viewing MP blade usage data .................................................................................... 378
Viewing Parity Group data .......................................................................................... 380
Viewing Logical Device data ....................................................................................... 381
Viewing host group data ............................................................................................. 382
Sample on appDefinition.xml and appProfile.xml files ..................................................... 383
17 Troubleshooting P9000 Performance Advisor ................................... 387
Overview ............................................................................................................................... 387
HP tools for troubleshooting and visualizing data ........................................................................ 387
P9000 Performance Advisor log selection tool ............................................................................ 387
Alarms are not being sent by email ........................................................................................... 388
Average values are higher than maximum values ........................................................................ 389
Array type not seen in P9000Watch ......................................................................................... 389
Delays in alarm dispatch and email notification generation .......................................................... 389
Entries in the event log during database size modification ............................................................ 389
Event log not updating ............................................................................................................ 389
Host Agent: Verifying that it is operational ................................................................................. 390
Host does not appear in the management station ........................................................................ 391
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