HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0204, January 2010)

Deployment steps
Before actually configuring the environment it is very important to carefully plan the environment and
the deployment steps after taking all the requirements into consideration. The deployment steps include
configuring of all the storage components that provide storage services for the VMware environment:
• Fibre Channel zoning—Configure the appropriate SAN zoning.
• Storage systems—Configure the LUNs and LUN masking.
• VSM—Configure the storage pools: virtual disks and assigning the virtual disks to the VMware/ESX
servers.
• VMware ESX server—Configure the storage adapter and create the DATASTORE.
NOTE:
It is important that the components are configured in the specific order as described in the following
sections.
Supported VMware ESX versions
The following VMware ESX and Virtual Center versions are supported by the current VSM software
release:
• VMware ESX Server 3.5 update 2 or later
• VMware ESX Server 3.5 update 2 or later (both installable and embedded)
• VMware ESX vSphere 4 (ESX 4.0) , VMware ESX vSphere 4 (ESX 4.0) update 1 or later
• VMware ESX vSphere 4 (ESX 4.0) , VMware ESX vSphere 4 (ESX 4.0) update 1 or later (both
installable and embedded)
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