Viewing cache and clpr utilization, Cache, Usage chart – HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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CHA MPs and the associated ports.
The port type, such as Fibre, Ficon, Escon, or FCoE (applicable only for P9000 disk arrays) is also
displayed beside the port ID.

In addition, the utilization summary includes the following for a P9000 disk array:

Cache usage.

Bus utilization.

MP blade utilization, which includes the following:
• MP blade IDs.
• DKCs, cluster #, and the blade locations for the MP blades.
• The MPs on the MP blade and each MP's utilization percentage.

Click an MP to view the corresponding utilization percentage graph in the Chart Work Area.
By default, the data displayed is for the last one hour.

CHIP data, which includes the following:
• DKCs, cluster #, and the slots where the CHAs are located.
• Associated port IDs (CHA to port mapping information).

The port type, such as Fibre, Ficon, Escon, or FCoE (applicable only for P9000 disk arrays) is
also displayed beside the port ID.

• Average frontend I/Os and MB/s for the CHA, which is the average of the overall average

I/Os and MB/s on all the ports in that CHA.

• Average frontend I/Os and MB/s on an individual port.

Viewing cache and CLPR utilization

The Cache [Total - ### MB] group box displays the total cache (Cache [Total — <valueMB>]). The
CLPR Details group box displays each individual CLPR utilization, which is the CLPR number followed
by the CLPR size in MB (CLPR # [Size - ### MB]).

The following table describes the metrics that are displayed in both the Cache [Total - ### MB] and
the CLPR Details group boxes.

In the CLPR Details group box

In the Cache [Total - ### MB] group box

Metric

The CLPR cache utilized for the frontend and
backend transactions

The total cache utilized for the frontend and
backend transactions

Usage

The data buffered in the CLPR cache that is
pending to be written into the backend RAID
groups and LDEVs

The data buffered in the cache that is pending
to be written into the backend RAID groups
and LDEVs

Write Pending

The CLPR cache used to store the data
sequence number, record location, record
length, and queued control information for a
remote data replication.

The total cache used to store the data
sequence number, record location, record
length, and queued control information for a
remote data replication

Sidefile Inform-
ation

Click Usage, Writes Pending, or the Sidefile values to view a graphical representation of the cache
or the CLPR usage data. For more information on using chart options, see

Plotting charts

” on page 262.

You can also view an advisory on the usage of an individual CLPR. For more information, see

Advisory

on CLPR utilization

” on page 205.

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