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

collection occurs for all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays not every 15 minutes of the hour,
but at varied points of time in the day.
Sample HP XP P9000 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 P9000 disk arrays] per host)
• Eight HP XP P9000 and Seven XP disk arrays (2000 LDEVs per XP or P9000 disk array)
Collect performance data every two minutes for all the components in your XP and P9000
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 XP P9000 Performance Advisor is installed supports one of the
following coexistence configurations:
• HP XP P9000 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 XP P9000 Performance Advisor on the same management station, you
can install either of them to coexist with HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor based on your
requirement.
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent
• HP XP P9000 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 XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP XP P9000 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 XP P9000 Performance Advisor (v5.4) + HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor (v5.5) + HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 with default
SQL Express database
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor (v5.5) + RAID Manager v1.17.01 only
Unsupported coexistence configurations
The following coexistence configurations are not supported on a management station where HP
XP P9000 Performance Advisor is installed:
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent
+ Command View EVA
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent
+ Command View AE
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + Command View (legacy)
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP Systems Insight Manager Server
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