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This article is intended for administrators wishing to leverage StorMagic SvSAN, to provide resilient synchronously mirrored, cached and encrypted storage, alongside and HPE StoreOnce to provide file storage, compression, de-duplication and replication technologies.

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Information

StorMagic SvSAN

• Turns underlying storage of any x86 server into highly available shared storage within clusters of two servers (nodes) or more

• Sits on top of the hypervisor as a guest virtual machine, and is fully compatible with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Linux KVM

• Shared storage works through active-active synchronous mirroring between two servers
• Ensures there is always an exact copy of data on each server
• If one server fails or is taken offline, the remaining server continues to operate, providing no disruption in service to the organization, and no downtime

• Provides highly available shared storage on just two nodes
• Can be on-site or remote to the cluster
• Provide quorum for up to 1,000 clusters at a time

https://stormagic.com/svsan/

Greenlake trial registration

HPE Backup and Recovery Service Deployment and Installation

Having registered for the trial:

90-day free trial for testing

HPE Backup and Recovery Service for VMware

GreenLake Data Protection

Software subscription details

Software subscription details

Ensure the permissions are set correctly:

Login to

https://common.cloud.hpe.com/

Pull the Orchestrator OVA:

Select Backup and Recovery

Select Download

and deploy:

Select the host to deploy the Orchestrator to

Select the storage for the Orchestrator VM VMDK

Select the networks for the Orchestrator to connect to.

Set a static IP address

Set Default Gateway and DNS details

Review the Summary

Review the Summary

Power on

browse to the orchestrator IP set during the deployment, confirming network access:

Set how the VM will get the correct time:

Copy the Activation code

From your Greenlake console select Activate, enter the pasted code and Activate

The setup will now show completed:

The Orchestrator will now dislay in the Greenlake console

This may then be selected and managed:

Storeonce

It is also possible to leverage Storeonce, with an SvSAN provided storgae disk per the below:

https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/9045292104989-StorMagic-SvSAN-and-HPE-StoreOnce

Add a Storeonce node to your Greenlake backup as a Service environment.

Copy the Storeonce Serial

In the Greenlake console select + or Register:

Enter the Storeonce details and select Register

Date Protection Gateway

Next we need to push a Protection Store Gateway

Select + to add a Protection Store Gateway (PSG)

This will open the setup wizard

If not already present at the vCenter

Proceed through the wizard

Select the environment size, to appropriately size the Protection Store Gateway

In our small example:

Either configure:

1. Storeonce backup store

or

2. VMFS backup store

Set the static IP of the Protetcion Store Gateway

After reviewing the summary complete the wizard to see the Protection Store Gateway created in the environment:

Create the Protection Policies:

Confirm backups are running:

Run a restore:

See Also

https://stormagic.com/manual/

https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2020/09/08/hpe-what-is-hpe-storeonce-and-how-to-download-hpe-storeonce-vsa-g4-in-vmware-vsphere-7/

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/deduplicating_appliance_storeonce.html?ver=110

https://buy.hpe.com/uk/en/storage/disk-storage-systems/storeonce-systems/storeonce-systems/hpe-storeonce-vsa/p/6608666