HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.5 Install Guide (T1789-96339, February 2013)

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 XP P9000Info command (see “XPInfo –i command” (page 83)).
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 XP P9000 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 XP P9000 Performance Advisor and click Array View
on the left pane.
6. In the Array View screen, select the host agent record in the Host Information table, and click
Request Info.
7. After the Status column displays Received for the selected host agent record, click the
Configuration Collection or Performance Collection tab.
The text GUID is appended to the file names of those command devices on which the GUIDs
are created. The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor configuration and performance data
collection through such command device files uses \\?\Volume {GUID}.
84 Installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents