HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

Log on to the HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agent as an administrator or as a member
of the Administrators group.
d.
e. Open the Computer Management console by clicking Start+Run+compmgmt.msc, and
press the Enter key.
f. Under Storage in the left pane, select Disk Management.
g. In the right pane, select a command device from the list of command devices displayed
by the HP XPInfo command (see “XPInfo –i command” (page 80)).
h. Right-click the command device and select New Partition.
The New Partition Wizard appears.
i. Click Next.
j. Select Primary partition and click Next.
k. Specify the size of the partition in the Partition size in MB box, and click Next.
l. Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder.
m. Do one of the following:
• Create and mount a new NTFS folder dynamically by entering in the text box, the
path where the folder will be created.
• Click Browse to select and mount an existing NTFS folder.
n. Click Next.
o. Select Do not format this partition, and click Next.
p. Click Finish.
The selected command device is partitioned and is assigned a GUID. For information on
using Disk Management, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/en-us.
4. Restart the HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agent services.
For example, <install directory>:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\xppa\
hostagent\sbin> xppa restart
5. On the management station, launch HP XP7 Performance Advisor and click Array View on
the left pane.
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