SvHCI - Installation Walk Through – StorMagic Support

This article is intended for administrators wishing to install StorMagic Hyperconverged Infrastructure (SvHCI) onto physical hardware as a two-node cluster with a witness appliance.

Audience: Administrators Product: SvHCI Platform: Physical Hardware Deployment: Two-Node Cluster Includes: Hardware • Install • Witness

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Installing SvHCI on Physical Hardware

This guide demonstrates deploying SvHCI as a two-node hyperconverged cluster with a witness using two HPE DL325 Gen11 servers.

Deployment Scenario

This document details the installation of SvHCI as a two-node hyperconverged cluster with a witness using two HPE DL325 Gen11 servers.

Note: The StorMagic SvHCI ISO does not support Secure Boot. Secure Boot should be disabled within the server BIOS before beginning the installation.

HPE Secure Boot Configuration

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Example Hardware Configuration

The following hardware configuration was used during this deployment.

2 × HPE DL325 Gen11 servers
1 × AMD EPYC 9224 (24 Core / 48 Thread @ 2.5 GHz)

AMD EPYC processor

4 × 64 GB memory DIMMs

Memory configuration

Adapter 1 – BCM5719 1Gb 4-port BASE-T OCP adapter used for management and virtual machine traffic.
Adapter 2 – Broadcom P210tep NetXtreme-E Dual-Port 10GBASE-T Ethernet adapter.
DAC cables are used for storage and Live Migration networking.

Network adapter configuration

HPE NS204i-u Gen11 Boot Controller
2 × 480 GB SSD boot drives

Boot controller

HPE MR416i-o Gen11 Storage Controller
5 × 1.92 TB SATA SSD

Storage controller

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Reference Architecture

The following storage layout was used during deployment.

Storage layout

The following network topology was used during deployment.

Network topology

The video above demonstrates a complete end-to-end deployment.

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Boot from the SvHCI Installation ISO

Connect to the server iLO interface and mount the SvHCI installation ISO as virtual media.

Mount the SvHCI ISO

Power on the node.

Power on the server

Select the option to manually choose the boot device.

Boot device selection

Select the iLO Virtual CD-ROM containing the mounted SvHCI ISO.

Select the iLO virtual CD-ROM

When the GRUB boot menu appears, select Install - Manual.

GRUB boot menu

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Complete the SvHCI Installation

Select installation option 1 - HyperConverged Infrastructure Appliance (HCIA) and complete the installation wizard by specifying:

The disk to install the hypervisor operating system onto.
The management network interface.
The management IP address, subnet, VLAN, default gateway, DNS servers and NTP server.

SvHCI installation wizard

Note: If information is entered incorrectly during the installation, press Ctrl + C to restart the installation wizard.

After the installation completes, press Enter to reboot the node.

Installation complete

If there are issues caused by leftover partitions or the incorrect boot device being selected, the remaining disks can be cleaned using the purge option before rebooting.

Purge disks

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Access the SvHCI Management Interface

After the node reboots, the SvHCI console displays the management IP address that can be used to access the web management interface.

If the incorrect management network interface, default gateway or other networking information was configured during installation, these settings can be corrected from the local console.

Console Usage

Note: Depending on your hardware, it may also be necessary to configure the console keymap as described in the Console Usage article.

SvHCI console login

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