Document Outline

• HP StorageWorks P9000 Application Performance Extender Software User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Overview
  • Functional representation
• 2 Installing and removing P9000 Application Performance Extender
  • Installing the management station
    • Prerequisites
    • Install instructions
      • Verifying installation on the management station
  • Installing the communication agent
    • Prerequisites
    • Installing the communication agent on HP-UX and Linux (x86 and x86_64) hosts
    • Installing the communication agent on a Linux IA64 host
      • Verifying communication agent installation on HP-UX and Linux hosts
    • Installing the communication agent on a Windows host
      • Verifying communication agent installation on a Windows host
  • Installing the controller
    • Prerequisites
    • Installing the controller on HP-UX and Linux (x86 and x86_64) hosts
    • Installing the controller on a Linux IA64 host
      • Verifying controller installation on HP-UX and Linux hosts
    • Installing the controller on a Windows host
      • Verifying controller installation on a Windows host
  • Upgrading P9000 Application Performance Extender
    • Upgrading the management station
      • Management station upgrade support
    • Upgrading the communication agent
      • Communication agent upgrade support
    • Upgrading the controller
      • Controller upgrade support
  • Removing P9000 Application Performance Extender
    • Removing the management station
    • Removing the communication agent
      • Removing the communication agent on HP-UX and Linux hosts
      • Removing communication agent on a Windows host
    • Removing the controller
      • Removing the controller on HP-UX and Linux hosts
      • Removing the controller on a Windows host
• 3 Licensing P9500 disk arrays
  • License screen
  • Instant-on license
  • Instant-on license activation
  • Instant-on license expiration
  • Grace period expiration
  • Proactive License Tracking
  • Permanent License
  • Meter Based Term license
    • Meter based Term license requirement
    • Meter based Term license activation and consumption
  • Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website
  • Installing licenses
  • Viewing license details
  • Exceeding Permanent licensed capacity and grace period
  • Exceeding Meter based Term licensed capacity and grace period
  • Violating licensed capacity
  • Removing licenses
• 4 P9000 Application Performance Extender user interface layout
  • Common tasks
• 5 Using P9000 Application Performance Extender
  • Discovering hosts and collecting configuration data
    • Data Collection screen
    • Adding ESX server
    • Updating ESX Password
    • Collecting configuration data
  • Specifying controller and command device settings
    • Controller Settings screen
    • Specifying controller settings
    • Specifying command device settings
  • Specifying DLOM settings
    • DLOM Settings screen
    • Enabling DLOM settings
  • Managing Service Level Objectives
    • SLO Settings screen
    • Creating SLO profiles
    • Updating SLO profiles
    • Assigning SLO profiles to arrays
    • Removing SLO profiles
    • Scheduling SLO profiles
      • Creating a schedule
      • Updating schedules
      • Removing schedules
  • Managing workloads
    • Workload settings screen
    • Creating workloads
    • Updating workloads
    • Removing workloads
    • Filtering workload records
    • Specifying workload settings in a cluster environment
  • Viewing utilization graphs
    • MPB graphs screen
    • Viewing and generating MPB graphs
  • Monitoring workload performance
    • Workload graphs screen
    • Viewing and generating workload graphs
    • Specifying performance data collection interval
    • Specifying array alias
  • Creating and viewing reports
    • Generate Report screen
    • Generating reports
    • Schedule Report screen
    • Creating report schedules
    • Updating report schedules
    • Removing report schedules
  • Configuring alarms
    • Alarms screen
    • Creating alarms
    • Updating alarms
    • Removing alarms
    • Viewing alarms history
    • Filtering alarm records
• 6 Launching P9000 Application Performance Extender from P9000 Performance Advisor
• 7 Troubleshooting P9000 Application Performance Extender
• 8 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
    • Subscription service
  • Related information
    • Documents
    • Websites
  • Typographic conventions
• A Checking for valid user to support command device authentication for APEX in Remote Web Console (RWC)
• B Configuring HP Process Resource Manager groups on HP-UX hosts
  • Installing HP Process Resource Manager
  • Using the command-line interface to configure HP Process Resource Manager
  • Setting PRM to start automatically at reboot
  • Examples of configuring Process Resource Manager
• C Deployment scenarios
  • Application level SLOs
  • Host level SLOs
• D Creating command devices
• E Procedure to change LDEV ownership using Remote Web Console (RWC)
• F Configuring NPIV and RDM disk for VMware ESX Servers
• Glossary
• Index