.HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance in an HP BladeSystem environment solution guide (AT459-96002, April 2009)

2 Supported configurations
The following are supported configurations.
Storage configuration inside the enclosure
There are two storage configurations inside the enclosure.
• Excess capacity from local server blade drives creates the shared storage pool.
• Install HP LeftHand VSA software in a virtual machine on a VMware ESX Server host adjacent to
the SB40c, creating an iSCSI SAN out of the SB40c.
• The SB40c can also provide VM data stores to other VMs running on the adjacent server blade.
The configuration for using excess capacity from local server blade drives to create the shared storage
pool is shown below.
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