Table 5 Configuring the VSA for Hyper-V using the installer wizard (continued)

Installer Step

Definition

Virtual machine

Information for creating the virtual machine, including the following:

Name for the virtual machine in Hyper-V

Type of hard drives, virtual or physical

Check box to power on the VSA for Hyper-V after it is installed

Hard drives, either

One of two windows opens, depending on which type of drives were selected in the Virtual

virtual or physical

machine window.

 

Virtual or physical drive requirements

 

Maximum of 5 drives

 

Minimum size: 5 GB

 

Maximum size: 2040 GB

 

Virtual hard drives window

 

Select up to 5 virtual hard drives and designate the size.

 

Physical Drives window

 

Select up to five physical drives that you have prepared, and which are offline. These drives must

 

have no partitions or volumes on them, or the installer will not list them.

 

IMPORTANT: Total amount of configured storage on the VSA for Hyper-V cannot exceed 10 TB

 

or virtual RAID will fail.

1.Begin the installer one of the following ways:

Unzip the files if you downloaded a .zip file, and then double-click the executable to start the installation.

Double-click the downloaded executable to start the installation.

Insert the DVD in the DVD drive (either the physical HP StoreVirtual VSA and Failover Manager DVD you received or the DVD you created after downloading the DVD .iso image from the web).

2.Accept the terms of the License Agreement.

3.Configure the parameters of the virtual machine on the network, including the hard drives. See Table 5 (page 12).

NOTE: You can run the wizard again to configure another VSA for Hyper-V using the same parameters as appropriate.

4.Finish the installation, reviewing the configuration summary.

When the installer is finished, the VSA for Hyper-V is ready to be used in HP StoreVirtual Storage.

5.Next, install the CMC, described in “Getting started with HP StoreVirtual Storage” (page 14). Then follow the steps in “Installing the CMC” (page 14).

The installer may take a few minutes to complete, depending upon the underlying hardware.

Troubleshooting

Table 6 Troubleshooting the VSA for Hyper-V installation

Problem

While installing the VSA for Hyper-V, you do not see the physical disks you prepared.

Solution

1.Close the installer.

2.Verify that the disks are offline.

3.Start the installer again.

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