9.5 HP P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide

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Contents

1 Planning for the VSA...................................................................................5

Planning the virtual network configuration....................................................................................5

Planning the clustered storage configuration.................................................................................5

2 Installing the VSA for ESX Server..................................................................6

Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................6

Unsupported configurations...................................................................................................6

Obtaining the VSA...................................................................................................................6

Installing the VSA for ESX Server using the VSA installer................................................................6

Installing the VSA OVF version...................................................................................................8

Configuring a data disk.............................................................................................................8

Powering on the VSA and setting IP address and hostname............................................................9

Finishing up with VI Client.........................................................................................................9

3 Installing the P4000 VSA for Hyper-V Server................................................10

Supported versions of Microsoft Windows Server........................................................................10

Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................10

Best practices.........................................................................................................................11

Unsupported configurations.....................................................................................................11

Installing the VSA...................................................................................................................11

Troubleshooting......................................................................................................................12

4 Getting started with the P4000 SAN...........................................................13

Installing the CMC..................................................................................................................13

Prerequisite.......................................................................................................................13

Installing the CMC in Microsoft Windows.............................................................................13

Installing the CMC in Linux..................................................................................................13

Getting started with the CMC...................................................................................................13

Verify the hardware configuration........................................................................................14

Creating the iSCSI SAN..........................................................................................................16

Best Practice Summary........................................................................................................16

Troubleshooting .....................................................................................................................17

Documentation available ........................................................................................................18

5 Designing a virtual SAN............................................................................19

Designing your virtual SAN......................................................................................................19

Configuration requirements.................................................................................................19

Best practices....................................................................................................................20

Unsupported configurations.................................................................................................21

Hardware design for VSA........................................................................................................21

Virtual network design.............................................................................................................22

Using VSAs with HP SAN Solutions...........................................................................................22

Adding storage capacity to a VSA............................................................................................23

Create additional disks.......................................................................................................23

Changing the disk size on the SAN......................................................................................24

Sample configurations.............................................................................................................24

Single system configuration.................................................................................................25

Two-system configuration.....................................................................................................25

Three-system-plus configuration............................................................................................26

A Using the VMware VSA laptop demo..........................................................27

Requirements for the demo.......................................................................................................27

Planning the demo installation..................................................................................................27

Installing the VSA...................................................................................................................27

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