10.5 HP StoreVirtual Storage VSA Installation and Configuration Guide (TA688-96138, March 2013)

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Contents

1 Planning for the VSA...................................................................................5

Planning the virtual network configuration....................................................................................5

Planning the clustered storage configuration.................................................................................5

2 Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere....................................6

Supported versions of VMware...................................................................................................6

Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................6

Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere..................................................................6

Installing the VSA OVF version...................................................................................................8

Configuring a data disk.............................................................................................................8

Powering on the VSA for vSphere and setting IP address and hostname...........................................9

Finishing up with VI Client.........................................................................................................9

3 Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for Microsoft Hyper-V.................................11

Supported versions of Microsoft Windows Server........................................................................11

Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................11

Best practices.........................................................................................................................12

Unsupported configurations.....................................................................................................12

Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for Microsoft Hyper-V...............................................................12

Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................13

4 Getting started with HP StoreVirtual Storage.................................................14

Installing the CMC..................................................................................................................14

Prerequisite.......................................................................................................................14

Installing the CMC in Microsoft Windows.............................................................................14

Installing the CMC in Linux..................................................................................................14

Getting started with the CMC...................................................................................................14

Verify the hardware configuration........................................................................................15

Configuring RAID..........................................................................................................16

Creating the iSCSI SAN..........................................................................................................17

Best Practice Summary........................................................................................................17

Troubleshooting .....................................................................................................................18

Documentation available ........................................................................................................19

5 Designing a virtual SAN ...........................................................................20

Designing your virtual SAN......................................................................................................20

Configuration requirements.................................................................................................20

Best practices....................................................................................................................21

Unsupported configurations.................................................................................................21

Hardware design for VSA........................................................................................................22

Virtual network design.............................................................................................................23

Using VSAs with HP StoreVirtual Storage...................................................................................23

Adding storage capacity to a VSA............................................................................................23

Create additional disks.......................................................................................................24

Sample configurations.............................................................................................................25

Single system configuration.................................................................................................25

Two-system configuration.....................................................................................................25

Three-system-plus configuration............................................................................................26

6 Using the VMware VSA laptop demo..........................................................27

Requirements for the demo.......................................................................................................27

Planning the demo installation..................................................................................................27

Installing the VSA...................................................................................................................27

Configuring the VSA with VMware Player, VMware Server, or VMware Workstation...................28

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