HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v6.0 Install Guide

• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP Systems Insight Manager Server

• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP Storage Essentials

• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Host Agent + Command View AE

• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor cannot coexist with applications that do not allow different

application-specific Oracle database instances to coexist. For example, HP Storage Essentials

does not allow another Oracle database instance to coexist with its specific instance.

• Any other configuration that is not mentioned in the preceding Supported coexistence

configurationslist

• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor cannot coexist with HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3

For optimal performance, HP recommends that you install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor as

a standalone product. For more information on the supported versions, see the HP XP P9000

Performance Advisor streams document available at http://h20272.www2.hp.com/Pages/

spock2Html.aspx?htmlFile=sw_array_xp.html.

Management station prerequisites

This section describes the prerequisites that you must complete for installing HP XP P9000

Performance Advisor on a management station.

After you complete the prerequisites, start the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation. For

more information, see “Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 45).

• “Verifying the supported configurations for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 27)

• “Getting the fully qualified domain name or IP address of your management station” (page 29)

• “Determining the authentication type for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 29)

• “Allocating 1 GB free disk space in the TEMP folder” (page 32)

• “Configuring a Loopback Adapter or static IP address” (page 32)

• “Assigning ports for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on the management station” (page 33)

• “Configuring the web browser proxy server settings” (page 35)

Verifying the supported configurations for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor

To install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor, verify that you have the supported configurations

for:

• “Hardware” (page 27)

• “Software” (page 28)

• “Web browser” (page 28)

• “Firmware” (page 28)

Hardware

Your management station must meet the following hardware requirements:

• DVD drive

• Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon based systems - 3.0 GHz CPU (minimum) or later for complex

configuration and multiple disk arrays

For multi-core processor based systems - 2.0 GHz CPU or later

• 2 GB RAM (minimum), 4 GB RAM for complex configuration, and multiple XP and P9000

disk arrays

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