11.0 HP StoreVirtual Storage VSA Installation and Configuration Guide (TA688-96141, September 2013)

5 Using the VMware StoreVirtual VSA laptop demo
The StoreVirtual VSA laptop demo is the smallest and most portable version of the LeftHand OS
software virtual appliance. It is intended to demonstrate all the capabilities of HP StoreVirtual
Storage (physical storage appliances as well as StoreVirtual VSA), including storage clustering
and data protection features on VMware Workstation or Player. When using advanced features,
it will run for a limited time of 60 days.
NOTE: There is not a separate demo version of the HP StoreVirtual VSA for Microsoft Hyper-V
Server.
The StoreVirtual VSA laptop demo can be used indefinitely as a single storage system iSCSI target
with snapshots. If a configuration is deleted and recreated, the trial period of licensed features
starts again.
To demo HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere, download the time-limited trial version and
follow the instructions in “Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere” (page 11) to
set up virtual HP StoreVirtual Storage. Adding a license removes the time restriction of the trial
license.
The laptop demo of the StoreVirtual VSA runs a full-featured version of the LeftHand OS software,
and provides the following capabilities:
• Use of the LeftHand OS software without requiring physical storage devices.
• Use of advanced LeftHand OS software features such as Clustering, Network RAID,
application-managed snapshots, thin provisioning, Remote Copy and Multi-Site SAN.
The demo is available at www.hp.com/go/tryvsa.
Requirements for the demo
• The demo StoreVirtual VSA is supported on 64–bit systems only
• Minimum of 3 GB of RAM
• One virtual CPU with 2 GHz reserved
• A dedicated gigabit virtual switch
• 5 GB to 2 TB of disk space per virtual disk, up to 10 TB total per virtual storage appliance
• VMware Player, Workstation
• IP address, subnet mask, and gateway for the virtual machine
Planning the demo installation
Before you install the StoreVirtual VSA, plan the virtual network configuration.
• Virtual appliance directories, host names and IP addresses – Create a directory for each virtual
machine on the hard drive you will use as the storage system.
• Network configuration – Plan the subnet and IP address for the virtual machines as well as
for the VIPs required for storage clusters.
• Storage configuration – Install the CMC on Linux or Microsoft Windows. Then use the CMC
to find storage systems, create storage, and connect to application servers.
26 Using the VMware StoreVirtual VSA laptop demo