9.0 HP StorageWorks P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide

Contents

1 Planning for the VSA .......................................................................... 7

Planning the virtual network configuration ...................................................................................... 7

Planning the clustered storage configuration ................................................................................... 7

2 Installing the VSA for ESX Server .......................................................... 9

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................... 9

Obtaining the VSA ..................................................................................................................... 9

Installing the VSA ....................................................................................................................... 9

Configuring a data disk ............................................................................................................. 10

Powering on the VSA and setting IP address and hostname ............................................................ 11

Finishing up with VI Client .......................................................................................................... 11

3 Installing the P4000 VSA for Hyper-V ................................................. 13

Supported versions of Microsoft® Windows® Server ..................................................................... 13

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 13

Best practices ........................................................................................................................... 14

Unsupported configurations ........................................................................................................ 14

Installing the VSA ..................................................................................................................... 14

Troubleshooting ........................................................................................................................ 16

4 Getting started with the P4000 SAN .................................................. 17

Installing the CMC .................................................................................................................... 17

Prerequisite ....................................................................................................................... 17

Installing the CMC in Microsoft Windows .............................................................................. 17

Installing the CMC in Linux .................................................................................................. 17

Getting started with the CMC ..................................................................................................... 17

Verify the hardware configuration ......................................................................................... 18

Configuring RAID ........................................................................................................ 19

Creating the iSCSI SAN ............................................................................................................. 20

Best Practice Summary ........................................................................................................ 21

Troubleshooting ....................................................................................................................... 21

Documentation available .......................................................................................................... 22

5 Designing a virtual SAN ................................................................... 23

Designing your virtual SAN ........................................................................................................ 23

Configuration requirements .................................................................................................. 23

Best practices .................................................................................................................... 24

Unsupported configurations ................................................................................................. 25

Hardware design for VSA .......................................................................................................... 25

Virtual network design ............................................................................................................... 26

Using VSAs with HP StorageWorks SAN Solutions ........................................................................ 26

Adding storage capacity to a VSA .............................................................................................. 27

Create additional disks ....................................................................................................... 27

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