HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

collection occurs for all the XP, P9000 and the XP7 disk arrays not every 15 minutes of the
hour, but at varied points of time in the day.
Sample HP XP7 Performance Advisor configuration and performance data collection
schedule configurations
• One management station (8 GHz CPU, 16 GB RAM, Windows 2003 SP2)
• Five host agents (three arrays [one XP and two XP7 disk arrays] per host)
• Eight XP7 and Seven XP disk arrays (2000 LDEVs per XP or XP7 disk array)
Collect performance data every two minutes for all the components in your XP, P9500
and XP7 disk arrays
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◦ Collect configuration data every week, over the weekend
◦ Use stagger schedule – Yes
Determining the coexistence with other storage products
Supported coexistence configurations
A management station where HP XP7 Performance Advisor is installed supports one of the following
coexistence configurations:
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + Command View Advanced Edition + Command View EVA
NOTE: If you do not want both Command View Advanced Edition and Command View
EVA to coexist with HP XP7 Performance Advisor on the same management station, you can
install either of them to coexist with HP XP7 Performance Advisor based on your requirement.
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP XP7 Performance Advisor Windows host agent
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP Systems Insight Manager Agents (HP Insight Foundation
Agents, HP Insight Server Agents, HP Insight Storage Agents, HP ProLiant Remote Monitor
Service, and HP ProLiant System Shutdown Service)
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP XP7 Performance Advisor Windows host agent + HP
Systems Insight Manager Agents (HP Insight Foundation Agents, HP Insight Server Agents, HP
Insight Storage Agents, HP ProLiant Remote Monitor Service, and HP ProLiant System Shutdown
Service)
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP Systems Insight Manager Server
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor (v5.4) + HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor (v5.5) + HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 with default SQL
Express database
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor (v6.1) + RAID Manager v1.19.00 only
Unsupported coexistence configurations
The following coexistence configurations are not supported on a management station where HP
XP7 Performance Advisor is installed:
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP XP7 Performance Advisor Windows host agent + Command
View EVA
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP XP7 Performance Advisor Windows host agent + Command
View AE
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + Command View (legacy)
• HP XP7 Performance Advisor + HP Systems Insight Manager Server
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