HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

• After installing HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agents: This section lists the post-installation
tasks and prerequisites that you must complete to login, and configure data collections in HP
XP7 Performance Advisor.
• Using HP XP7 Performance Advisor: This section lists the procedures to collect configuration
and performance data from your XP, P9500 and XP7 disk arrays.
Table 2 HP XP7 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist
Before installing HP XP7 Performance Advisor
HP XP7 Performance Advisor setup prerequisites
Design the infrastructure for HP XP7 Performance Advisor.
For more information, see “Designing the infrastructure” (page 21).
Determine the coexistence for HP XP7 Performance Advisor with other storage products.
For more information, see “Determining the coexistence with other storage products” (page 25).
HP XP7 Performance Advisor management station prerequisites
Verify whether existing applications on the management station support other Oracle database instances to be
installed. If multiple Oracle database instances can coexist, ensure that they are not named PADB, as it conflicts
with the same name (PADB) provided for the HP XP7 Performance Advisor database.
HP XP7 Performance Advisor can coexist only with applications that allow different application-specific Oracle
instances to coexist. For more information, see the application-specific documentation.
If the %ORACLE_HOME%, %ORACLE_SID%, and %CATALINA_HOME% environment variables are already
configured on the management station, delete or rename them before the installation begins. You can recreate
these variables or rename them back after the installation procedure completes.
Verify the supported configuration for the HP XP7 Performance Advisor management station.
For more information, see “Verifying the supported configurations for HP XP7 Performance Advisor” (page 26).
Select a free port (not used by any other application's process and not a commonly reserved port) that HP XP7
Performance Advisor can use for all its communications. Port 80 is the default port that can be used.
For more information, see “Assigning ports for HP XP7 Performance Advisor on the management station”
(page 32).
Get the fully-qualified domain name or IP address of your management station.
For more information, see “Getting the fully qualified domain name or IP address of your management station”
(page 28).
Determine the authentication type for the management station.
For more information, see “Determining the authentication type for HP XP7 Performance Advisor” (page 28).
Allocate at least 1 GB free disk space in your management station's TEMP folder, if you are opting for a complete
installation.
For more information, see “Allocating 1 GB free disk space in the TEMP folder” (page 31).
Configure the Loopback Adapter or a static IP address for the management station.
For more information, see “Configuring a Loopback Adapter or static IP address” (page 31).
Increase the virtual memory (custom page file size) for the <Installation_Drive> on the management station,
where you plan to install HP XP7 Performance Advisor.
For more information, see “Increasing the virtual memory on your management station” (page 34).
HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agent prerequisites
Verify the supported configuration required for installing the HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agents.
For more information, see “Verifying the supported configurations for HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agents”
(page 35).
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