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

Table 5 Configuring the VSA for Hyper-V using the installer wizard (continued)
DefinitionInstaller Step
Information for creating the virtual machine, including the following:Virtual machine
• Name for the virtual machine in Hyper-V
• Type of hard drives, virtual or physical
• Check box to power on the VSA for Hyper-V after it is installed
One of two windows opens, depending on which type of drives were selected in the Virtual
machine window.
Virtual or physical drive requirements
Hard drives, either
virtual or physical
• Maximum of 5 drives
• Minimum size: 5 GB
• Maximum size: 2040 GB
Virtual hard drives window
Select up to 5 virtual hard drives and designate the size.
Physical Drives window
Select up to five physical drives that you have prepared, and which are offline. These drives must
have no partitions or volumes on them, or the installer will not list them.
IMPORTANT: Total amount of configured storage on the VSA for Hyper-V cannot exceed 10 TB
or virtual RAID will fail.
1. Begin the installer one of the following ways:
• Unzip the files if you downloaded a .zip file, and then double-click the executable to start
the installation.
• Double-click the downloaded executable to start the installation.
• Insert the DVD in the DVD drive (either the physical HP StoreVirtual VSA and Failover
Manager DVD you received or the DVD you created after downloading the DVD .iso
image from the web).
2. Accept the terms of the License Agreement.
3. Configure the parameters of the virtual machine on the network, including the hard drives.
See Table 5 (page 12).
NOTE: You can run the wizard again to configure another VSA for Hyper-V using the same
parameters as appropriate.
4. Finish the installation, reviewing the configuration summary.
When the installer is finished, the VSA for Hyper-V is ready to be used in HP StoreVirtual
Storage.
5. Next, install the CMC, described in “Getting started with HP StoreVirtual Storage” (page 14).
Then follow the steps in “Installing the CMC” (page 14).
The installer may take a few minutes to complete, depending upon the underlying hardware.
Troubleshooting
Table 6 Troubleshooting the VSA for Hyper-V installation
SolutionProblem
While installing the VSA for Hyper-V, you do not see the
physical disks you prepared.
1. Close the installer.
2. Verify that the disks are offline.
3. Start the installer again.
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