9.5 HP P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide

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The HP P4000 VSA for Hyper-V Server is pre-formatted for use with Microsoft® Windows® Server
2008 R2 Hyper-V™. Install the VSA for Hyper-V Server on a Windows Server 2008 configured
with redundant RAID. If you are using an evaluation copy, to continue using the VSA after the trial
period has ended you must purchase a license key. After you apply the license key, your
configuration can be used as is in a production environment, or reconfigured if necessary.
Supported versions of Microsoft Windows Server
All operating systems listed are 64–bit. VSA for Hyper-V Server is supported on 64–bit systems
only.
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
• Windows Server 2008 SP2, except for Core, which is not supported
Prerequisites
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
• Available drive space of up to 10 TB for Hyper-V Server. HP recommends installing Hyper-V
Server on top of a redundant RAID configuration. Do not use RAID 0.
• At least 1 GB of memory reserved.
• A single virtual CPU with at least 2000 MHz reserved.
• Have a Gigabit Ethernet or internal network environment.
• Host name for the VSA.
• Network configuration planned, including an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway for the
VSA, or use DHCP (requires statically assigned IP addresses).
• Define the install paths for the Hyper-V virtual machine and the virtual hard disks.
• Ensure the following hotfixes are applied before beginning the installation: KB 979711, KB
975530, KB 981836.
• If using physical disks for the VSA, ensure that the disks are completely clean of any partitions
or any other remnants prior to running the Hyper-V Server installer.
• If using physical disks, they must be connected, but offline in Windows Disk Manager before
starting the installer.
Table 4 Memory requirements for Hyper-V Server VSA disks
Requires at least this much memoryTotal capacity of all installed disks
• 1 GB• 500 GB up to, but less than 4.5 TB
• •4.5 TB up to, but less than 9 TB 2 GB
•• 3 GB9 TB up to, but less than 10 TB
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