HP P6000 Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 18)

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This chapter explains HP P6000 Performance Advisor concepts, including key metrics, KPIs, charts,
reports, database maintenance, and threshold monitoring.
Object type folders and Storage object nodes
HP P6000 Performance Advisor displays data at two levels:
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Object type (parent) folder node. Includes the corresponding storage object type nodes. At
this level, you can view summary of data relevant to the corresponding storage objects. You
can identify the storage object that has the highest or lowest performance data using the
sorting functionality, click the hyperlink to navigate directly to the storage object page and
view the detailed data. Only the monitored objects are listed. Storage System, Controller and
Host Ports are added for monitoring by default.
Object type data is not available for storage systems and physical disks.
The following summaries are available for each object type in HP P6000 Performance Advisor:
◦ Key metrics summary. Provides the historical statistical data of all storage objects for
selected counters predefined by HP P6000 Performance Advisor.
A hyperlink for each storage object helps you navigate to its key metric page.
◦ Threshold summary. Provides the threshold summary of all threshold enabled storage
objects that are monitored. A hyperlink for each storage object helps you navigate to its
threshold summary page.
◦ Charts. Allows you to add charts to view the performance of all the corresponding storage
objects for various counters. For example, at the Data Replication object type, you can
only plot charts for data replication group or data replication tunnel storage objects.
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Storage (child) object node. View performance data for each storage object monitored in HP
P6000 Performance Advisor. Each storage object belongs to a container object.
A storage system is considered an object node, not a container object. You can view dashboard
data and generate reports in HP P6000 Performance Advisor. You can view data corresponding
to all monitored storage objects in the storage system in various ways, such as charts, KPIs.
Storage objects can belong to different object type folder nodes.
◦ Folders created under Virtual Disk and Hosts folder are user created folders and are not
considered as an object type folder or a storage object node.
◦ Data replication tunnel data is available at Data Replication folder node and storage
system level only.
The object type folder node and storage object node are referred as object type and performance
object respectively in HP P6000 Performance Advisor. In the Navigation pane, they are referred
to as object type folders and object folders, respectively. Similarly, the term object type refers to
root node or folder in HP P6000 Command View.
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