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HP P9000 XP Disk Array Family - Model P9500 XP and
HP P9000 XP Software
Performance Management Software
Licensing
Vista/32-bit; Windows Vista (SP1)/32-bit; Windows 2008/32-bit; Windows 2008 (SP1,
SP2)/32-bit; Windows 2008 R2/32-bit and 64-bit; VMware; Hyper-V; XEN. Refer to the
Support Matrix for all supported platforms.
3-GHz CPU, 4-GHz CPU (recommended for large configurations > 2GB database)
2 GB RAM (minimum), 4 GB RAM (recommended for large configurations > 2GB
database)
10 GB free drive space (minimum), 320GB free drive space (for maximum history detail)
NTFS
DVD drive
VGA monitor with 256 colors or better
At least one LAN Card
Host Agent:
Agent refer to the HP P9000 XP Performance Advisor Installation Guide
Minimum Array Firmware - refer to the release notes associated with the particular version of
Performance Advisor
For P9500 XP Disk Array, License-to-use is based on total installed internal usable capacity.
External storage LUNs do not need to be considered.
As more LDEVs are configured, additional licenses for P9000 XP Performance Advisor much
also be purchased.
See Capacity-Licensed P9000 XP Software section for more details.
HP P9000 XP Application Performance Extender Software
Overview
HP P9000 XP Application Performance Extender Software helps customers prioritize their business
applications and give their mission-critical applications the highest priority to achieve a significant
improvement in the service levels. It provides end-to-end quality of service from the hosts to the Disk
Array. It empowers storage administrators to set bandwidth or response time targets so that Disk Array
resources are used effectively to meet the SLA requirements for the key business applications. It helps
datacenter administrators to virtualize and consolidate their environment without worrying about
performance degradation for their critical applications.
With P9000 XP Application Performance Extender, you set performance goals for your business critical
applications in terms of minimum average bandwidth that your application must get or maximum
average latency allowed for your application response time. The software takes your inputs and works
with the Disk Array to achieve the performance targets set by you for your critical applications. This
software makes your SAN administration cost effective by reducing the need for application specific
storage/cache partitioning. You can dynamically change application priorities based on your real time
needs, thereby utilizing your storage resources more efficiently. You can monitor performance of your
applications live or view their historical performance against their SLA. P9000 XP Application
Performance Extender also notifies you when your applications fail to meet their service level objectives
for you to take corrective actions.
With the new Dynamic LDEV Ownership Management capability, P9000 XP Application Performance
Extender allows LDEVs to be moved dynamically from one micro-processor blade to another depending
on how loaded the blades are. This results in improved performance (improved quality of service) and
better utilization of P9500 XP array resources. Dynamic LDEV Ownership Management feature is an
array based capability and it does not matter on the type of hosts connected with P9500 XP Disk Array.
Models
P9000 XP Application Performance Extender works with P9500 XP, XP24000, and XP20000 Disk Arrays.
HP P9000 XP Application Performance Extender Software Base LTU
TB520AA
HP P9000 XP Application Performance Extender Software 1TB 0-30TB LTU
TB520AB
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