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

Table 2 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist (continued)
IMPORTANT: After installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents, return to this checklist to
complete the remaining prerequisites and tasks to use HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
After installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host
agents
Verify if the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent services have started.
For more information, see “Confirming the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent services”
(page 78).
Verify if the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor UNIX host agent services have started.
For more information, see “Confirming the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor UNIX host agent services”
(page 80).
Verify if the respective host agent records are appearing in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on your
management station.
For more information, see “Verifying if the host agents appear in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 82).
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” (page 83).
Configure SSL settings on your Windows or UNIX host.
For more information, see “Configuring SSL settings for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 86).
Using HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor
Launch HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and log in using your credentials.
For more information, see “Launching HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 66).
Start collecting the configuration and performance data for the XP and P9000 disk arrays.
For more information, see “Using P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 94).
Initial HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor setup prerequisites
This section describes setup prerequisites:
• “Designing the infrastructure” (page 23)
• “Determining the coexistence with other storage products” (page 27)
After you complete the prerequisites, perform the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor management
station prerequisites. For more information, see “Management station prerequisites” (page 28).
Designing the infrastructure
This complete section needs to be reviewed for the new array, HP XP 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” (page 24)
2. “Determining the management station and host requirements” (page 24)
3. “Preparing the XP or the P9000 disk arrays and determining their data collection schedules”
(page 26)
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