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

1 Introduction
Product description
HP StoreOnce VSA is a software-only version of the HP StoreOnce Backup system. Packaged as
a virtual appliance, it can be deployed and run on a Microsoft Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V or vSphere
5.1 or 5.5 hypervisor (ESXi) installed by the customer. Once deployed, the user has access to the
StoreOnce VSA for both Web Management via the StoreOnce GUI and command line management
via the StoreOnce CLI.
HP StoreOnce VSA supports two storage capacity licenses of 4 TB and 10 TB.
Deployment of StoreOnce VSA in each hypervisor environment is described in the following
chapters.
• Chapter 2, Deploying StoreOnce VSA on Microsoft Hyper-V
• Chapter 3, Deploying StoreOnce VSA on VMware ESXi
Neither deployment configures any user data storage automatically; you are recommended to
follow the instructions to add user data storage before initially powering on the StoreOnce VSA.
Once deployed, you are able to create the following StoreOnce backup target devices on the HP
StoreOnce VSA:
• StoreOnce Catalyst stores
• iSCSI VT libraries
• CIFS and NFS NAS shares
The virtual appliance is fully compatible with HP StoreOnce hardware products for replication and
Catalyst Copy functions.
StoreOnce VSA system requirements for both deployments methods are the same and are described
in the next section.
6 Introduction