9.5 HP P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide

Best practices

• HP recommends installing Hyper-V Server on top of a redundant RAID configuration with a

RAID controller that has battery-backed cache enabled. Do not use RAID 0.

• The virtual NIC labeled seth0 is the default and required virtual NIC for the SAN/iQ software

and iSCSI.

NOTE: The Description, Speed and Duplex columns under the TCP Status tab will show

“Unknown” for seth0. This has no functional impact on the actual speed or performance of

this virtual NIC.

Unsupported configurations

• Running VSAs on top of existing HP P4000 SAN Solution storage is not recommended.

• The virtual NICs on the VSA do not support Jumbo Frames, flow control setting modifications

or TCP off-load. The physical NICs on the server can be configured with these features.

• The virtual NICs on the VSA do not support 10Gb/s at this time. The physical NICs on the

server can be 10Gb/s.

• NIC bonding between 2 virtual NICs is not supported.

• The hot adding or removal of virtual hard disks and pass-through disks is not supported. See

the Microsoft Linux Integration Services User Guide.

For additional information about unsupported configurations and best practices, see the HP P4000

SAN Solution User Guide.

Installing the VSA

Install the VSA for Hyper-V Server using either of the following methods:

• Find the VSA for Hyper-V Server on the HP website at

http://www.hp.com/go/tryvsa

www.hp.com/go/P4000downloads

• Install the VSA for Hyper-V Server from the HP P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) DVD.

The installer for the VSA for Hyper-V Server includes a wizard that guides you through configuring

the virtual machine on the network, configuring virtual or physical hard drives, and powering on

the VSA. After finishing the installation, install the CMC and find the VSAs as storage systems in

the CMC. You can then set up the clustered storage for the SAN, as described in “Getting started

with the P4000 SAN” (page 13).

NOTE: One or more Microsoft hotfixes may be required on your system before you can install

the VSA for Hyper-V Server. If this is the case, before the installer actually begins, a window opens

that notifies you of the required hotfixes and provides links to the appropriate site to download the

hotfix.

Table 5 Configuring the VSA for Hyper-V Server using the installer wizard

DefinitionInstaller Step

Lists one or more Microsoft hotfixes that must be installed before installing the VSA Hyper-V.Hotfix required

VSA for Hyper-V Server is the storage systemType

Locations for the virtual machine and the virtual disks.Destination

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