HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v6.0 User Guide

In the above image, under MP Blades for the P9000 disk array 53036:

• MP Blades is the main category. The number 2 indicates the total number of MP blades

configured on the selected P9000 disk array 53036.

• MPB-1MA is one of the individual MP blade IDs that belongs to the Cluster 1 and the blade

location MA.

• Processors is the component type. The number 4 indicates the total number of processors that

belong to MPB-1MA.

• MP 0 is one of the individual processors that belongs to MPB-1MA.

The applicable metrics are displayed in the Available Metrics Choose Metric Category list. Select

the metrics at the component type or the individual component levels, or both and view the related

performance graphs in the Chart Work Area. For a description of these metrics, see “Metric

Category, metrics, and descriptions” (page 388).

The following table provides the default set of metric categories that are displayed in the Available

Metrics Choose Metric Category list for the XP and the P9000 disk arrays.

Most used default metric categoryMP blades category for P9000 disk arrays

Utilization MetricsMP Blade, MPs

In addition to viewing the utilization metrics for an MP blade and its individual processors, you

can also view the following:

• The top 20 consumers of an MP blade, see “Viewing top 20 consumers of an MP blade”

(page 272)

• The MP blade utilization split up for each processing type, see “Viewing MP blade utilization

by processing types” (page 273)

• The LDEV that is currently assigned to an MP blade, see “Viewing current LDEV assignments

for an MP blade” (page 282)