This article is intended for administrators wishing to install StorMagic Hyperconverged Infrastructure, or SvHCI nested into a VMware environment for testing.
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Scenario
The below is an example setup used internally by StorMagic for lab testing.
Note: Please ensure Promiscuous mode is enabled on the vSwitches the SvHCI VMs are connected to
Create a new VM:
Provide the VM a name:
You'll typically create 2x VMs to create a 2-node cluster and a separate witness VM, to emulate a potentially centralized, shared witness.
Select your host
and storage
Select VMware compatibility version:
Define the VM as RHEL 8
And disable secure boot
The below example is running very slim on CPU. Give the VM some CPU, more if you want to run VMs, and set the CPU to be reserved (advised to mitigate risk of underlying resource contention):
The below example is running very slim on memory. Give the VM some memory, more if you want to run VMs, and set reserved (advised):
Provide a small boot/OS disk. We're using 2x ~32GB here thin provisioned, to demonstrate the software RAID functionality within SvHCI.
Add a pool disk
Per the below this is emulating systems similar to the below:
However as reference SvHCI can consume HBA managed disks and software RAID0, 1 or 10 or hardware RAID
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/17597617525917-SvSAN-and-Software-RAID
Add NICs to the VM as required and attached the ISO
Set the disks to be seen as SCSI disks with the below Advanced Setting:
disk.EnableUUID = TRUE
The SvHCI VM may then be cloned, to enable the install of 2-nodes to form a 2-node cluster:
Deploy a Witness Appliance:
The SvHCI OS may then be installed:
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/18858860181917-SvHCI-Installation
Licensed:
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/18860442155549-SvHCI-First-Boot-Wizard
Networking configured:
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/18860678011293-SvHCI-Configure-networking
Cluster created:
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/18860768070557-SvHCI-Cluster-Creation
Note: The appliance will be in a Warning status due to not having VMware credentials configured. Add host or vCenter credentials to the nodes to go back to Normal status.
Note: The Cluster witness should match the witness used for Targets/VM Disks
VMs provisioned:
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/18860994242077-SvHCI-Windows-VM-Creation
Failover tests performed:
https://support.stormagic.com/hc/en-gb/articles/18990899134237-StorMagic-SvHCI-Evaluators-Guide
For the rest of the installation please follow the SvHCI Installation guide
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