On page 7 in the Tools section of the Symmetrix Performance Workshop Student Guide, it reads:
"If you add Symmetrix Performance Analyzer to an environment that already contains
Performance Manager, you can import the older Performance Manager to preserve the history of
your existing arrays. The data will be read from Performance Manager’s BTP files into the
Symmetrix Performance Analyzer MySQL database. Once you import the old archives, you
should configure Symmetrix Performance Analyzer to collect its own data on the existing arrays
so that data will be updated automatically.
You can only import archives from arrays that have already been discovered by Symmetrix
Performance Analyzer. In other words, the Symmetrix ID in the BTP file must match an array
already in Symmetrix Performance Analyzer. When read, the large number of Performance
Manager metrics will be reduced to just the key performance indicators that Symmetrix
Performance Analyzer records."
That is the only reference to this that I can find. I am scheduled for this class on Monday and I will see what the instructor says about it and let you know.
