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

Contents
1 Planning for the HP StoreVirtual VSA.............................................................4
Configuration requirements........................................................................................................5
Best practices...........................................................................................................................6
Unsupported configurations.......................................................................................................6
Hardware design for the StoreVirtual VSA....................................................................................7
Using StoreVirtual VSAs and HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage............................................................8
Sample configurations...............................................................................................................8
2 Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere..................................11
Supported versions of VMware.................................................................................................11
Configuration requirements for the VSA for vSphere....................................................................11
Best practices for VSA for vSphere............................................................................................12
Unsupported configurations for VSA for vSphere.........................................................................12
Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere................................................................12
Installing the StoreVirtual VSA OVF version................................................................................14
Troubleshooting the VSA for vSphere.........................................................................................16
3 Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for Microsoft Hyper-V.................................17
Supported versions of Microsoft Windows Server........................................................................17
Configuration requirements for the VSA for Hyper-V.....................................................................17
Best practices for VSA for Hyper-V.............................................................................................18
Unsupported configurations for VSA for Hyper-V.........................................................................18
Installing the HP StoreVirtual VSA for Microsoft Hyper-V...............................................................18
Troubleshooting the VSA for Hyper-V.........................................................................................20
4 Getting started with HP StoreVirtual Storage.................................................21
Installing the CMC..................................................................................................................21
Getting started with the CMC...................................................................................................21
Creating your first StoreVirtual cluster........................................................................................23
Adding storage capacity to a StoreVirtual VSA...........................................................................23
Documentation available ........................................................................................................25
5 Using the VMware StoreVirtual VSA laptop demo.........................................26
Requirements for the demo.......................................................................................................26
Planning the demo installation..................................................................................................26
Installing the StoreVirtual VSA...................................................................................................27
6 Support and other resources......................................................................28
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................28
HP Insight Remote Support software..........................................................................................28
Related information.................................................................................................................28
7 Documentation feedback...........................................................................30
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