HPE E7W04A, Q0F25A, N9X16A, K2R80A, H6F99A Getting Started Guide

Data sheet

HPE Performance Analysis Service for
HPE Disk Arrays

Integration and Performance Services

HPE Performance Analysis Service for HPE Disk Arrays provides data collection, detailed I/O analysis, and enhancement recommendations
for your HPE Disk Array. Through this service, you will receive a report detailing the performance of your HPE Disk Array and a briefing
session highlighting Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s findings and recommendations.

Potential benefits of the service include gaining a better understanding of the performance characteristics of your HPE Disk Arrays, such
as load imbalance and oversubscription. Current performance is compared to the maximum calculated throughput and bandwidth for
your specific configuration. Documented best practices are used to identify areas for potential improvement, which may include making
configuration changes, adjusting application loads during peak periods, physically rebalancing the workload, and adding additional capacity
or performance boosters (for example, additional cache). This allows you to make informed decisions based on actual performance during
typical and/or peak workloads.

The following products are covered by HPE Performance Analysis Service for HPE Disk Arrays:

• HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera storage systems

• HPE P9000/XP disk arrays

• HPE XP disk arrays

• HPE P6000/EVA disk arrays

• HPE 4x00, 6x00, and 8x00 EVA disk arrays

Service benefits

• Improve disk array performance, stability, and availability by identifying potential problems and understanding the possible solutions that
may help you avoid them

• Establish a baseline as a reference for future performance analysis and change management

• Receive help making informed, proactive decisions on your HPE Disk Array system’s capacity planning and avoid unnecessary and costly
reactive upgrades

Service feature highlights

• Data collection and analysis

• Performance report

• Briefing session

Data sheet

Tab le 1 . Service features

Feature Delivery specifications

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Data collection and
analysis

Performance report Hewlett Packard Enterprise develops a disk array performance report for the Customer, which includes the HPE disk array performance

Briefing session Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides the Customer’s IT storage administrator, database administrator, and storage infrastructure

This service provides data collection and analysis of HPE disk array performance data retrieved by the appropriate analysis tool. Service
activities include:

• Review the engagement with the Customer using the predelivery checklist

• Review the ser vice with the Customer to verify compatibility with the Customer ’s environment

• Perform data collection activities and analyze the data collected

specialist ’s findings and recommendations, a graphical representation of detailed performance data, and array configuration information.

management with a briefing session lasting up to 3 hours’ duration, which is to be scheduled during HPE standard business hours shortly
after the completion of the ser vice, to review the performance report highlighting findings and recommendations.

Service limitations

The HPE Performance Analysis Service for HPE Disk Arrays is limited to one disk array.

This service focuses on HPE disk array performance. It does not include detailed SAN or connectivity topology analysis, or analysis of the
Customer’s computing system, applications, clustering, high availability, or other complex configurations. Review and analysis of these topics
is a separate service that is subject to additional charges.

The service does not provide for the implementation of recommended tuning activities. These considerations can be quoted separately from
this one-time service. Please contact a Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage specialist for more information.

External storage on HPE P9000/XP disk arrays is not included in this service.

Activities such as, but not limited to, the following are excluded from this service:

• Any installations of new or existing hardware

• Any hardware reconfigurations of existing environments, such as removal or movement of host adapters, disk drives, and adapter cards, or
conversion and reformatting of existing storage devices

• For P6000/EVA and P9000/XP disk arrays, installation of the data collection software; this service does not provide the software or
installation of the software; the software is available for purchase separately, and installation is available as a separate service

• Planning, design, implementation, or assessment of the Customer’s overall SAN or fabric architecture

• Migration of Customer data

• Any documentation other than that specified in this data sheet

Only one briefing session is included; additional sessions are available for purchase.