8.5 HP StorageWorks P4000 VSA Installation and Configuration Guide (TA688-96017, September 2010)

Create additional disks

Create up to 4 additional disks for a VSA.

Requirements

• Minimum size - 5 GB

• Maximum size - 2047 GB for ESX, 2040 GB for Hyper-V

• Created sequentially as follows:

• ESX Server—from SCSI 1:1 through SCSI 1:4. This assumes that the first disk has already been

created and assigned to SCSI 1:0.

• Hyper-V—Add up to four additional disks to SCSI Controller 0, location 1 through 4. This as-

sumes that the first disk has already been created in SCSI Controller 0, location 0.

Creating a disk

1. Power off the VSA.

2. Using either VMware Server, VI Client, or Microsoft virtual machine manager, add from 1 to 4

disks to the VSA.

3. Assign each disk to the next sequential SCSI address or location.

4. Configure the ESX Server disks as independent and persistent.

Configure the Hyper-V disks as fixed size.

5. Increase memory based on the total capacity of the VSA, according to the requirements in Table

Table 9 Memory requirements for VSA disks

Requires at least this much memoryTotal capacity of all installed disks

ESX Server

•• 384 MB500 GB

• •500 GB to 4.5 TB 1 GB

•• 2 GB4.5 TB to 9 TB

• •9 TB to 10 TB 3 GB

Hyper-V

•• 1 GB500 GB up to, but less than 4.5 TB

• •4.5 TB up to, but less than 9 TB 2 GB

•• 3 GB9 TB up to, but less than 10 TB

6. Power on the VSA when you have finished adding disks.

Add disks to RAID

A new disk appears as Uninitialized in the Disk Setup tab of the Storage configuration category. Add

the new disk to RAID, which automatically powers the disk on.

1. In the CMC, navigate to the VSA.

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