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HP Performance Consulting Service, Technical Data
A Service of the HP ConsultLine Program
Every organization experiences growth and change in its business
environment. As a result of business changes in your company,
additional and altered demands will be placed on your computing
resources. Managing the performance of your computing environment and
capacity planning for computer system and business growth are critical
to maintaining your firm's efficiency and productivity.
HP Performance Consulting service, which is a part of the HP
ConsultLine program, offers a complete, flexible range of services to
meet all of the performance management and capacity planning
requirements within your data processing environment, whether it
consists of a single CPU or the most complex distributed processing
network.
Our performance specialists - who have the most current, detailed
knowledge of and experience with HP system architecture and internal
software - deliver the consulting services. HP may use proprietary
software tools to measure your system's performance.
These tools and our specialists' knowledge and experience in
technical and business aspects of system performance ensure that you
receive the best, most cost-effective performance consulting available
for HP systems.
HP Performance Consulting service includes the capability to work
with each phase of your system's life cycle, such as: planning your
computer resource capacity requirements, implementing performance
management procedures, optimizing applications, and identifying and
removing performance bottlenecks experienced in your day-to-day
operations.
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Features
o Superior quality analysis and recommendations by HP performance
specialists
o Comprehensive, flexible range of performance services tailored to
your specific requirements
o System measurement using HP proprietary software tools
o Professional reports incorporating presentation-quality graphs
Benefits to You
o Make business decisions with confidence based on expert analysis
o Solve your system performance and capacity management requirements
cost-effectively
o Receive accurate measurement of system performance
o Interpret complex performance data quickly and effectively
communicate analysis results within your organization
Make Business Decisions with Confidence
A key element in these services is the analysis by an HP performance
specialist. These highly trained and experienced professional
consultants will provide you with the best possible analysis and
recommendations on which to base your business decisions.
Solve Your System Requirements Cost-effectively
The performance specialist will work with you to determine your
requirements and will then tailor a service to meet your specific
needs. An agreed-upon set of tasks and deliverables will be provided
as part of this customized service.
Receive Accurate Measurement of System Performance
HP proprietary software tools may be utilized to measure your system's
current performance and to predict future performance in
capacity-planning exercises.
These tools, while providing an accurate measurement of your
system's performance, have been designed to ensure they do not impose
significant overhead on your system.
Interpret and Communicate Complex Data Quickly
Presentation-quality reports combining graphs, explanatory text, and a
written analysis by the performance specialist will allow you to
assimilate the data quickly and to make more accurate business
decisions. You can then effectively communicate the information to
other interested people in your organization.
Additional Features
Performance Consulting Categories
If you require assistance with a current performance problem, or are
concerned about future growth, HP can consult with you about topics
such as problem diagnosis, system management, capacity planning,
application optimization, or network performance.
Problem Diagnosis.
User productivity can be seriously affected by performance degradation.
If your user community is experiencing increasing or erratic response
times or if you are having difficulty achieving job turnaround times,
these services can help identify and remove performance bottlenecks.
Features Include:
o In-depth, accurate measurement of your system's performance
o Identification of performance bottlenecks
o Specific recommendations about tuning your system for our application
mix
System Management.
Service level objectives allow you to set system performance
expectations in terms users can understand - response times, workload
throughputs, availability, and so on. Achieving these service level
objectives while maximizing the return on your computing investment is
the goal of system management. The HP performance specialist helps you
to define service level objectives, balance your workloads and system
resource utilizations, prioritize your various applications, and
develop appropriate system management and housekeeping practices to
ensure service levels are met and reported.
Features Include:
o Specification of realistic service level objectives based on
workloads, system configuration, and budget constraints
o Identification and reporting of existing system utilization and
service levels
o Determination of most efficient job scheduling for your application
mix and priorities
o Definition of system management practices to best utilize existing
system resources while meeting service level objectives
Capacity Planning.
As your business environment changes, these services can help you
predict the performance effects of additional users, increasing the
number of your current transactions, adding standard HP software
products to your current configuration, or upgrading your system
configuration. The HP performance specialist works with you to
characterize your existing workload and to determine which "what if"
scenarios to evaluate.
Features Include:
o In-depth, accurate measurement of your system's workload
o Use of sophisticated analytic modeling software
o Customized "what if" scenario analyses incorporating your future plans
and alternatives
o Standardized HP application software workloads (where available) that
can be added to your system's model to forecast the implications of
adding new software packages
Application Optimization.
Software applications should deliver acceptable performance as well as
the required functionality. Your HP performance specialist can work
with you when you develop new applications, or review existing
applications to ensure optimal applications performance. You will be
able to identify issues with database design and usage, and efficiency
of file usage and application code.
Features Include:
o Measurement of your application's performance characteristics using
HP proprietary software tools
o Analysis of application interaction with databases, file management,
and other subsystems
o Investigation of system resource usage by application and, where
appropriate, within a specific application
Network Performance.
Distributed processing, transaction processing, and larger networks
have increased the complexity of analyzing performance issues within
your data processing environment. If your network users are
experiencing performance degradation, but it is unclear whether the
problems are occurring within the network, the application system, or
intermediate nodes, HP's performance specialists can work with you to
isolate and remove the bottlenecks.
Features Include:
o Measurement of your data processing environment's performance,
including end systems, intermediate nodes, and connecting network
performance
o Identification of performance bottlenecks
o Specific recommendations for tuning your network and distributed
systems
Product Implementation Assistance.
Effective use of HP's performance monitoring software products will
provide the maximum return on your investment. Our performance
specialist will work with you to advise you on the most efficient use
of your software, and assist you in learning how to interpret
performance information.
Features Include:
o Installation and configuration of the software
o On-site explanation of product usage
o Development of product management procedures
o Case study of product use
Specifications
Customer Responsibilities
Project Manager.
You appoint a project manager to work with HP's performance specialist.
This project manager is HP's primary contact throughout the consulting
engagement.
Ordering Information
These services are available for MPE V, MPE XL, and HP-UX systems.
Selected services are available for RTE systems. For more information
on terms and conditions, please see the Customer Support Services
Agreement (CSSA), Exhibit 2W.
You may request performance consulting services from your nearest HP
sales office or by conferring with your HP sales representative or HP
software engineer.
An HP performance specialist will work with you to determine your
exact requirements and to confer on a set of tasks and deliverables to
be provided as part of the service. You will then be provided with a
quotation for the delivery of the agreed-upon service.
Some services may not be available in all areas.
Technical information in this document is subject to change without
notice.
(C) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 1990. All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written
permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws.
Printed in U.S.A. 20K 04/90
5952-0854
Associated files: none
HP Performance Consulting Service, Technical Data