HP StoreOnce VSA Deployment and Configuration Guide (TC458-96024)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Product description ..................................................................................................................6
StoreOnce VSA system requirements...........................................................................................7
Supported datastores on VMware vSphere..............................................................................7
VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB setting.......................................................................................7
Supported datastores on Hyper-V...........................................................................................8
Supported server and network adapter configurations with Hyper-V............................................8
AMD Platform NUMA Settings (Hyper-V only)...............................................................................8
Before you start deployment.....................................................................................................10
StoreOnceVSA files required for deployment..........................................................................11
VMWare.....................................................................................................................11
Microsoft Hyper-V..........................................................................................................11
Deployment overview..............................................................................................................13
Logging on to the StoreOnce VSA after deployment....................................................................14
HPresetpassword account....................................................................................................14
For more information...............................................................................................................14
HP StoreOnce documentation..............................................................................................14
vSphere documentation......................................................................................................14
Hyper-V documentation.......................................................................................................14
Licensing...............................................................................................................................15
StoreOnce serial numbers...................................................................................................15
To redeem a purchased license............................................................................................16
2 Deployment on Microsoft Hyper-V...............................................................17
Introduction............................................................................................................................17
Deployment and configuration using the Microsoft Hyper-V Manager wizard..................................17
Deployment process...........................................................................................................17
Configuration process.........................................................................................................21
Deployment using HP StoreOnce VSA Hyper-V PowerShell Installer................................................29
To run the Hyper-V PowerShell Installer script..........................................................................29
To create a VSA.................................................................................................................29
3 Deployment on VMware vSphere................................................................33
Introduction ...........................................................................................................................33
Before you start .....................................................................................................................33
Deployment process................................................................................................................33
To create virtual disks for the StoreOnce VSA ............................................................................39
To create a 1 TB virtual disk ...............................................................................................40
4 Configuration options for StoreOnce VSA....................................................45
To prepare and add storage using the StoreOnce CLI..................................................................45
To apply the license using StoreOnce CLI commands...................................................................45
To amend the network configuration after deployment.................................................................46
To check the current configuration........................................................................................46
To run the net set wizard.....................................................................................................46
To increase virtual memory for optimal performance....................................................................47
To increase vRAM on VMware............................................................................................47
To increase vRAM on Hyper-V.............................................................................................49
5 Software update on VSA 1.x to VSA 2.0......................................................51
Download the upgrade package from the HP Support web site.....................................................51
sftp the upgrade to the software repository on the StoreOnce VSA................................................51
Run the StoreOnce CLI software update commands.....................................................................51
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