HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v6.0 User Guide

The MPB-1MB utilization data includes the following:
• MPB-1MB is the MP blade ID that was selected in the MP Blades Util% group box.
MPB-1MB is also listed in the MP Blade Configuration group box.
• MPB-1MB belongs to the Cluster 1 and the DKC 0.
• 1 in MPB-1MB represents the cluster # and MA represents the blade location for MPB-1MB.
• MP 0, MP 1, MP 2, and MP 3 are the MPs on MPB-1MB.
• The average utilization of MPB-1MB is 2%.
• The average utilization is calculated as the utilization of all the individual processors in
MPB-1MB, which is as follows: (MP1+MP2+MP3+MP4)/4.
• A total number of 264 consumers are assigned to MPB-1MB and grouped in the following
component types:
◦ LDEVs: 263
◦ Cont. Access Jnl Groups: 1
The average utilization of 2% is due to the 264 consumers that are utilizing the CPU cycles
through the associated processing types.
If you want to know which of the individual MPs on MPB-1MB is taking the processing load,
click the MPs in the MP Blade Configuration group box to view their utilization graphs. For
example, if over the last one day, one MP is servicing most of the I/O requests for the previous
23 hours, you can plot the utilization graphs for all the MPs to view which one of them is
processing the maximum I/O requests.
• The processing types displayed in the Processing Distribution: MPB-1MB table are those utilizing
MPB-1MB to process requests from the associated consumers.
• The Avg. Util % in the Processing Distribution: MPB-1MB table displays the average MPB-1MB
utilization by each processing type, which totals to the 2% displayed in the MP Blade Summary:
MPB-1MB table.
• The consumers displayed in the Top Components: MPB-1MB table are for MPB-1MB. These
consumers can be associated with multiple processing types.
• The Avg. Util % for each consumer record in the Top Components: MPB-1MB table displays
the average MPB-1MB utilization by that consumer. For example, out of the 2.50% average
utilization displayed for the Backend processing type, 0.45% is the average MPB-1MB
utilization by the consumer 0:58 (LDEV) associated with Backend.
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