HP LeftHand SAN Solutions Support Document - Installation Manual - VSA 8.0 Quick Start - Demo Version

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1 Chapter: Using the VSA Laptop Demo
Introduction
The VSA™ laptop demo is LeftHand’s smallest and most portable version. Use
this demo version to see the SAN/iQ
®
software in action. Create a LeftHand
SAN, complete with storage clusters and evaluate all LeftHand SAN storage
management features.
The VSA runs a full-featured version of the SAN/iQ software, and provides the
following benefits:
• Experience the SAN/iQ software without investing in physical
storage devices
• A 30 day evaluation period for advanced SAN/iQ software features such as
Clustering and Virtualization, Managed
• Snapshots, Remote Copy and Multi-Site SAN.
• Can be used indefinitely as a stand-alone iSCSI target.
• Is a VMware
®
certified virtual appliance
• Is available at www.lefthandnetworks.com
Requirements for the Demo
• Minimum of 224 MB of RAM
• 5 GB to 950 GB SCSI of disk space
• VMware Player version 1.x (1.0.4 or higher) and 2.x
• VMware Workstation version 5.5.x (5.5.3 or higher) and 6.x
• VMware Server version 1.x (1.0.2 or higher)