HP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software - Overview & Features

Overview

HP P9000 Application Performance Extender 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. Storage administrators set bandwidth or response time targets so that P9500 and XP Disk Array resources are used effectively to meet the Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for the key business applications. Datacenter administrators can virtualize and consolidate their environment without worrying about performance degradation for their critical applications. It makes your SAN administration efficient by reducing the need for application specific storage/cache partitioning.

What's New

• Significantly lower your IT expenditure with Meter-based Term licenses by purchasing software only for the period you use them

Features

• Set minimum average bandwidth needed or maximum average latency allowed for workloads or applications running on HP P9500 Disk Array and HP XP Disk Arrays.
• Using HP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software, you can dynamically change SLA targets based on real-time resource requirements of your mission-critical applications.
• HP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software offers complete quality of service with host, application and array awareness.

• HP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software allows for adding more applications to the P9500 Disk Array and XP Disk Arrays without penalizing performance of mission-critical applications.
• Service peak load SLAs of critical applications without additional hardware investments.
• Generate performance reports showing historical performance of applications against the service level objectives.

• HP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software allows storage administrators to monitor application performance in terms of bandwidth or latency in real-time.
• HP P9000 Application Performance Extender Software generates performance reports showing historical performance of applications against the service level objectives.
• Configure alarms to receive alerts linked to applications' performance.