HP XP P9000Watch and HP XP P9000Sketch Reference Guide for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor v5.5 (T1789-96341, February 2013)

Contents
1 Introduction to HP XP P9000Watch...............................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
HP XP P9000Watch environment................................................................................................7
Functional representation...........................................................................................................7
2 Installing HP XP P9000Watch......................................................................8
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................8
Installing HP XP P9000Watch....................................................................................................8
Accessing HP XP P9000Watch.................................................................................................10
Interactive mode................................................................................................................10
CLI mode..........................................................................................................................10
Removing HP XP P9000Watch.................................................................................................11
Components..........................................................................................................................12
3 Working with HP XP P9000Watch menus and commands.............................16
Commands............................................................................................................................16
Executing commands in Interactive mode..............................................................................16
Executing commands in CLI mode........................................................................................18
Menus...................................................................................................................................20
Array menu.......................................................................................................................20
Sync/Async Metrics...........................................................................................................21
Viewing Sync/Async metrics...........................................................................................23
Clearing P-VOL or S-VOL selection...................................................................................23
CA Journal Metrics.............................................................................................................23
Viewing CA Journal metrics............................................................................................24
Clearing CTG selection..................................................................................................25
Host Group Metrics............................................................................................................25
Viewing Host Group Metrics...........................................................................................25
Host Groups.................................................................................................................25
Viewing Host Groups................................................................................................26
Selecting Host Groups...............................................................................................26
Clearing Host Groups...............................................................................................28
Nickname menu............................................................................................................29
Assigning nicknames................................................................................................30
Renaming nicknames................................................................................................31
Deleting nicknames...................................................................................................32
Port menu.....................................................................................................................33
Viewing Port menu....................................................................................................34
Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme.......................................................................34
Viewing Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme......................................................34
RAID Group menu.........................................................................................................34
Viewing RAID Group menu........................................................................................35
LDEV menu...................................................................................................................35
Viewing LDEV menu..................................................................................................36
Settings menu...............................................................................................................36
Menu settings..........................................................................................................37
Performance data collection settings............................................................................37
4 Viewing performance metrics in HP XP P9000Watch....................................39
Collecting performance metrics.................................................................................................39
Understanding performance metrics..........................................................................................41
Sync/Async Metrics...........................................................................................................42
P-VOL S-VOL Configuration.............................................................................................42
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