Thursday, September 30, 2010

How easy to Install & Configure Hyper-V P4000 Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance

HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software (VSA) enables the benefits of a physical SAN with the ability to transform captive server disk drives and build a virtual iSCSI SAN and just a couple of days back HP Storage works P4000 Team has released Hyper-V Virtual SAN Appliance Software (VSA). Sometime back i blogged about the benefits of physical P4000 Lefthand SAN here. Today I tried my hands on this Hyper-V VSA and will share my experience and you will see how easy it is to install and configure the virtual SAN which provides you almost all feature of a Enterprise SAN including snapshots/snapclones & Multi site storage clustering.








You will prefer a Physical disk but for testing i choose Virtual disk



Minimum size needs to be at least 5GB








I manually turned on the Linux Virtual SAN appliance [VSA] Virtual machine but there is nothing more you need to do in Linux VM other than starting it up. [ My Hand is tight in Linux so i felt very happy about it ]



Now we need to install the Centralized Management Console





You see those required and available bytes in Hindi Language [ Not sure why-May be due to IST timezone? ]




Now we are about to find Storage nodes [ I only have one storage node VM deployed ]






Legacy NIC is only used during installation and later synthetic NIC is used




Now we need to create a Mangement Group and Volume






You can also create a multisite cluster as seen below





You can also create a thin provisoned volume




Now I have got my 100MB volume to be provisioned to Initiator, so i created an Initiator which is a 2008 R2 Server 








You can also investigate more about HP storage works P4000 SAN solutions at HP site and dont forget to try the trial edition here for both VMware and Hyper-V. This is atleast one SAN solution which supports Cluster shared volumes in Multi site Clustering. Hope you find this blog useful and thanks for your time.

GAURAV ANAND

Blog is based on my Personal understanding of the Technologies mentioned above and information provided is AS IS.

12 comments:

  1. Hi Guarav,

    Thanks for the work you have done on this much appreciated.

    I have a single Requirement a solid HA solution which doesnt cost the earth.. What I see here is that solution, Can you perhaps advise what potential issues you see in providing a HA Solution using LH VSA.

    Also is is possible to replicate to more than one LH VSA?

    What would you conisder the minimium bandwidth requirements to be for repliocation to a DR site.

    Are there any other software licensdes required for LH VSA e.g. replication software or is it all included?

    Thanks,
    Andrew

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  2. what is the importance of one node cluster? if host fails in which vsa resides, all system fails.

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