HP StoreVirtual 4000 9.5 HP P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide - Page 3

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 Contents 3