HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.5 Install Guide (T1789-96339, February 2013)

Figure 6 HP XP P9000 Installation Assistant — Pre-Upgrade tab
• PA version check: Verifies whether the version of Performance Advisor is suitable to upgrade
to PA v5.5, that is, if the installed version is older than two versions, the tool displays an error
message.
• Installed PA Services Status check: Verifies whether the following Performance Advisor services
are installed and are running, else displays an error message.
◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Database
◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Database Listener
◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Monitor
◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Security
◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Tomcat
• PA environment variables check: Verifies whether the PADB_HOME and HPSS_HOME environment
variables are created and do not contain trailing slash, else displays an error message.
• Hard disk space check: Verifies whether 64 GB free space is available in the PADB location,
8 GB free space is available Performance Advisor install location, and 1 GB in temp location,
else displays a warning message.
• Physical memory check: Verifies whether 1 GB of physical memory is available on the system,
else displays a warning message.
16 Understanding the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation prerequisites