HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.4 User Guide (T1789-96328, April 2012)

Contents
1 Introduction to P9000 Performance Advisor ......................................... 15
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 15
2 Working with the P9000 Performance Advisor GUI .............................. 17
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 17
Title bar ............................................................................................................................ 17
Left pane ........................................................................................................................... 18
Right pane ........................................................................................................................ 19
Common tasks .......................................................................................................................... 19
Sorting records .................................................................................................................. 19
Resizing columns ................................................................................................................ 20
Resizing sections of P9000 Performance Advisor screens ......................................................... 20
3 Managing licenses for XP and P9000 disk arrays ................................ 21
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 21
License screen .......................................................................................................................... 23
Instant-on license on P9000 Performance Advisor installation .......................................................... 24
Instant-on license activation .................................................................................................. 25
Instant-on license expiration ................................................................................................. 25
Grace period expiration ...................................................................................................... 27
P9000 Performance Advisor licenses ........................................................................................... 28
Permanent licenses ............................................................................................................. 28
Meter Based Term licenses ................................................................................................... 29
Meter based Term license requirement ............................................................................ 30
Meter based Term license activation and consumption ...................................................... 31
Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website ..................................................................... 36
Generating licenses ............................................................................................................ 36
Installing licenses ............................................................................................................... 37
Viewing aggregate License status ................................................................................................ 40
Viewing status for individual licenses ..................................................................................... 40
Viewing license history ........................................................................................................ 44
Exceeding Permanent licensed capacity and grace period ............................................................. 44
Exceeding Meter based Term licensed capacity and grace period ................................................... 45
Violating licensed capacity ........................................................................................................ 48
Removing licenses ..................................................................................................................... 48
4 Collecting configuration and performance data .................................. 53
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 53
Array View screen ..................................................................................................................... 54
Communicating with host agents ................................................................................................. 55
Requesting host agent updates ............................................................................................. 56
Removing host agent information from P9000 Performance Advisor .......................................... 58
Collecting configuration data ..................................................................................................... 58
One-time configuration data collection .................................................................................. 62
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