It allows utilizing any physical storage by converting it into the high-speed storage with the Fault Tolerance capabilities. StarWind license can go for 100% free, with unlimited capacity and it is allowed to be used in production environment.It doesn`t require anything additionally like pinging node, for example. It can do a remote replication over low-bandwidth channel, it can do snapshots on the storage level (obviously it allows doing VM/app level backup), it supports multi-site SAN architecture, etc. Basically here is how it looks like:
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PS: Mine shows Licensed for all of those except "Adaptive Optimization", but for one server (of the 3), it shows an alarm "The management group 'HPVMSANG2' license type is 'Time Limited' licensed, volumes going offline in less than 60 days. Register your storage system now.". Performance is acceptable, but the licensing policies is unprofessional and outdated, especially as it is registered AFAIK...
Now, if you've done all these steps, the VSA will be discovered by the Management console as a fresh storage node which you can add then to the Management group. Still, in the VSA cluster there is the old VSA node with an ugly X. You can get rid of it in the following way:
After having added the VSA to the management group select "Edit Cluster" and then "Exchange storage systems" from the cluster context menu, which lets you exchange your "ghost" VSA object in the cluster with your fresh VSA.
HPE brought Software-Defined Storage as a bundle with StoreVirtual VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) with every purchase of a new ProLiant Gen8 Server. The new offer, announced Last November 2013, is available with 10 models of ProLiant and includes a 1TB free entitlement license. The license can be combined on up to 3 nodes for a total capacity of 3TB of total storage in a free software SAN.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined')ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'charbelnemnom_com-box-4','ezslot_8',691,'0','0']);__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-charbelnemnom_com-box-4-0');
The underlying hardware on each Hyper-V host should be similar when used in the same StoreVirtual VSA cluster for ideal performance. This is especially true for the storage and networking configuration.
The network is a key component in every HP StoreVirtual deployment. It is critical to the communication among storage nodes as well as for Hyper-V hosts accessing volumes via iSCSI. Therefore the network segment for StoreVirtual VSA should be isolated from other networks using a separate VLAN.Hyper-V Host networking: We need a minimum of four network interfaces. On Hyper-V, the StoreVirtual VSA uses a virtual network switch (vSwitch), which is typically connected to two or more physical network interfaces on the server.
StoreVirtual VSA relies on hardware RAID to protect its data disks. It is strongly recommended to validate the storage configuration to be the same on all Hyper-V servers designated to run HP StoreVirtual VSA for optimal performance.
CPU and memory resources have to be reserved. You should have at least two 2GHz cores reserved for each VSA node. The memory requirements depend on the virtualized storage capacity. For example, 1-4 TB, you should have 5GB RAM for each VSA node (Please refer to the table below for all VSA capacity with or without Adaptive Optimization):
Now assume that storage and network are configured on all Hyper-V hosts that should run the StoreVirtual VSA, the next step is to start the deployment of the software on each host. HP StoreVirtual VSA Installer and HP StoreVirtual DSM for MPIO help to install and configure the StoreVirtual VSA on the local server. This means that you need to run the installer on each Hyper-V host individually.
An HP Virtual SAN Appliance is a great way to take existing local storage from multiple physical servers and combine them into a Virtual SAN. A Virtual SAN is a great way to get all the benefits of a traditional SAN, but at a fraction of the cost. In essence, the SAN is entirely software-based. The Virtual SAN Appliances (VSAs) that make up the SAN can be hosted either on VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V.
This particular article will focus on how to increase the storage space on a Virtual SAN Appliance that is already in production. It will focus specifically on a storage appliance hosted on VMware. In our scenario we will have two Virtual SAN Appliances, each running on VMware ESXi 5.1 with HP ProLiant Gen8 hardware. A Fail-Over Manager (FOM) will also exist and its sole purpose is to act as a tie-breaker during elections.
Each virtual host will also have a virtual machine that is the Virtual SAN Appliance. These appliances are directly connected to the local storage so they can NEVER be Vmotioned. Instead, you will have to shut down the VSA. The VSA on the second host will remain functional as it will serve all the Virtual Machines.
Under Capacity created a disk size of 2TB. Even though in our example we have around 2.5TB usable storage (after RAID and VMware overhead) we can only add a maximum disk size of 2TB. To work around this, once you have the 2TB disk added, repeat these steps and add the remaining space (around 500GB) as a second disk for the VSA virtual machine.
Each layer of disk takes away from the overall capacity because of each layer of overhead. But it is direct attached storage versus iSCSI or Fiber Channel. Local bus versus remote bus. On the same token the VSA is going to consume more local RAM and CPU versus dedicated SAN hardware.
Personally I prefer hardware SANs because of the performance. Hardware SANs will always be better than software SANs. But software SANs are a good fit when there is no budget, or, you want to repurpose servers with a lot of direct attached storage and still have high availability.
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday said it is bundling for free a version of its HP StoreVirtual VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) with its HP ProLiant Gen8 as a way to introduce SMB customers to the benefits of software-defined storage.
The HP StoreVirtual VSA license bundled with new HP ProLiant Gen8 (generation 8) servers lets customers install a virtual storage appliance with up to 1 TB of capacity on the servers for no charge, said Dave Scott, senior vice president and general manager for HP storage.
The free license will give SMBs the opportunity to both leverage the virtualization capabilities of the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers and to test the concept of software-defined storage, which Scott said turns industry-standard servers from any vendor into a shared storage solution just by installing software.
"Server virtualization has a lot of value, but it means customers are putting more eggs in one basket," he said. "So they need a resilient infrastructure to prevent problems. For the enterprise, they can do it with a resilient storage system like 3PAR. But it's a challenge for SMBs. SMBs often can't afford it, and they often don't have all the necessary IT skills."
It works with both VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology, with support for KVM and other hypervisors slated for the near future, he said. Furthermore, the virtual storage appliances run in a virtual machine alongside other virtual machines running a variety of other applications, he said.
When asked about HP's predictions about how many HP ProLiant Gen8 customers will adopt the company's software-defined storage technology and purchase larger licenses for the software, Dale Degen, category manager for HP's software-defined storage programs, said prediction is a difficult thing to do.
Scott said HP is now the only vendor to deliver software-defined storage as a free component of a server purchase. VMware is talking about bringing in its VSA software-defined storage later this year," he said. "We've been out with StoreVirtual for five years, and have delivered 175,000 licenses so far. It's well-proven in the field."
Looking at the larger family, the HP StoreVirtual 4130 and 4330 are built for cost optimization while the 4530/4730/4630 are meant for scalability. The HP StoreVirtual 4335 Hybrid Storage is designed for midmarket performance with an emphasis toward ease of use, with its 3ms latency and simple deployment and management. Making the 4335 easy to buy, HP promises that critical business data will remain available while being easy to setup, grow, and maintain. HP also ensures that this approach to storage allows for an innovative data protection level across the entire cluster, which reduces vulnerability without driving up costs the way traditional SANs may.
On the hardware side, as noted, the 4335 uses the tried and true ProLiant Gen8 server platform, which is a standard bearer in the enterprise server space. To accommodate availability needs, the units feature hot-swap dual power supplies, redundant fans and of course redundant hot-swap drives with an integrated storage controller that has flash-backed write cache. RAID can be configured in RAID5 or RAID6 on each machine, with wider Network RAID levels per volume that includes 10+2, which maintains up to four copies of data to accommodate for severe failures.
HP StoreVirtual Storage portfolio is powered by LeftHand OS. StoreVirtual may also be purchased as well as a virtual machine, StoreVirtual VSA, which can turn any server into a full-featured storage server. The OS is fully featured and includes the expected enterprise features like thin provisioning, replication (synchronous and asynchronous), Multi-Site SAN (distributed architecture), smart clone support, snapshot support and cluster management. The systems also feature DSM for Microsoft MPIO, which improves performance for Windows-based workloads and deep VMware integration including VAAI support, VASA support, snapshot integration with vCenter and vMSC certification. All of these services come with the purchase of the system, which is often not the case in enterprise IT, where additional licenses are common. 2ff7e9595c