Contents
Introduction to HPE XP7 Performance Advisor................................. 11
Overview..................................................................................................................................... 11
Getting started with PA.........................................................................13
Start PA.......................................................................................................................................13
Log out of PA...............................................................................................................................13
Launch PA from other Storage products.....................................................................................13
About launching PA from HPE XP7 Tiered Storage Manager..........................................13
View performance graphs for LDEVs.................................................................... 14
View performance graphs for RAID Groups..........................................................15
Navigating the PA graphical user interface........................................ 17
About the graphical user interface.............................................................................................. 17
Main menu and Banner...............................................................................................................17
Main menu........................................................................................................................17
Icon descriptions.............................................................................................................. 21
Session menu...................................................................................................................21
Help sidebar..................................................................................................................... 21
Filters and Filter sidebar..............................................................................................................22
Interpreting charts in dashboards............................................................................................... 23
Status and severity icons............................................................................................................ 24
About Panes............................................................................................................................... 24
Component screen details............................................................................................... 25
Monitor associated components...................................................................................... 26
About Charts............................................................................................................................... 26
Charts screen elements................................................................................................... 28
Plot charts........................................................................................................................ 30
View 50th, 90th and 95th percentile value in charts.........................................................32
About Real-time monitoring........................................................................................................ 32
Start/Stop real-time performance data collection............................................................. 34
About trending and forecasting................................................................................................... 35
Plot trending graphs......................................................................................................... 36
Plot forecasting graphs.................................................................................................... 36
Save charts as PDF or CSV files................................................................................................ 37
Save template charts.................................................................................................................. 38
Email charts as PDF/CSV...........................................................................................................38
Zoom in on data points across performance graphs...................................................................39
Rearrange or move chart windows............................................................................................. 40
PA Licenses........................................................................................... 42
About licenses.............................................................................................................................42
About Instant-on license on HPE XP7 PA installation......................................................43
Instant-on license activation.................................................................................. 44
Instant-on license expiration..................................................................................44
Grace period expiration......................................................................................... 45
About HPE XP7 PA licenses............................................................................................ 46
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