Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Microsoft Edition Version 5.4 Installation and User's Guide
- About This Guide
- Introduction to Host Integration Tools
- Installation
- Obtain the Installation Kit
- Installation Considerations
- Install Host Integration Tools for Microsoft
- Install HIT/Microsoft on a Windows Server Core Machine
- Install HIT on a Windows Server Core Cluster
- About Remote Host Installations
- Install HIT on a Failover Cluster
- About Silent Installations
- Using HIT With a SharePoint Farm
- Remote Setup Wizard
- Remote Setup Command Line Utility
- Using the Multipath I/O Component
- Use the VDS Provider
- Use SCVMM With the Dell EqualLogic SMP
- Install the Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Provider
- Configure the Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Provider
- Create a Classification for Dell EqualLogic Storage Resources
- Import the SMP Through the SCVMM GUI
- Configure PS Series Groups
- Configure Group Access on Managed Hosts and Clusters
- Configure Storage for VM Rapid Provisioning
- Create a VM Template From a VHD
- Migrate the Rapid-Provisioned VMs
- Migrate Storage of a Deployed VM to Another Location
- Troubleshoot SCVMM Issues
- Supported SMP PowerShell Cmdlets
- Use the HPC iSCSI Provider
- Tools and Utilities
- Index
Figure 13. Storage Array Settings Screen
The other setting—Clone logical units—will result in creating regular (fully provisioned) clones of the template volume, and
is not recommended for rapid provisioning using SMP in SCVMM because it will not scale.
The Storage Array Settings apply to individual PS Series groups and are not a global configuration for SMP.
4. Click OK to close the Properties panel.
Create a VM Template for the Library Share
1. On the PS Series group, create a regular volume allocating enough space to store the VHD for the VM. The template volume
must have a VHD to provision VMs.
2. Copy the VHD file to the volume.
3. Use the Group Manager GUI, CLI, or PowerShell cmdlet ConvertTo-EqlTemplateVolume to convert the volume to a
template.
When a regular volume is converted to a template it is set to read-only and the data on it cannot be changed unless the
template is converted back to a regular volume. See the Dell EqualLogic Group Manager Online Help or the Dell EqualLogic
PowerShell Tools Reference Guide for more information.
4. Set the volume online, then log in to the volume from the library host.
5. Mount the template volume to a library share configured on one of the SCVMM library hosts.
For example, in the following figure, the library share is visible on one of the library hosts, where the LibShare folder is a
configured share on the library server VMM-TEST-237, which has a template volume mounted under VMM-2008R2.
Figure 14. Library Share on Library Host Screen
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