HP LeftHand SAN Solutions Support Document - Installation Manual - VSA Quick Start Guide for SAN/iQ® 8.0

• VMware Server version 1.x (1.0.2 or higher)

• Have a reserved or static IP address, subnet mask, and gateway for the

virtual machine

Overview

When using the demo version, the full suite of features in the SAN/iQ software

is enabled for 30 days. After 30 days, volumes become unavailable if any

licensed features are in use. Licensed features include:

• Clustering

• Snapshots

• Remote Copy

• Multi-site SANs

The VSA can be used for free indefinitely as a single node iSCSI target with

snapshots or Remote Copy. If a configuration is deleted and recreated, the

30-day trial period of licensed features starts again.

If you want to use the VSA fully featured on an ESX Server, simply purchase a

license and follow the instructions in Chapter 2, Chapter: Getting Started

with the VSA for ESX Server to set up a virtual LeftHand SAN in your

environment.

Using the VSA demo comprises the following steps:

• Install a VMware application on a host system.

• Download the VSA to the host system.

• Unzip the downloaded package to a directory on the host system.

• Using VMware, browse to directory containing the virtual machine

and start it.

• Configure the IP address and hostname of the VSA using the

VMware console.

• Install the Centralized Management Console (CMC) on a machine from

which you will administer the SAN.