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Overview of UnityVSA

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UnityVSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) is a software de ned storage
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can be deployed on a Individual VMware ESXi host or vCenter with Email

ESXi host and enough resources . UnityVSA is available in two Submit

editions – Professional Edition (PE) and Community Edition (CE).

Professional Edition is a licensed product available at capacity levels
of 10 TB, 25 TB, and 50 TB. Community Edition is a free

downloadable 4 TB solution recommended for non-production use .

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 In this post we wills hare you the key features, requirements and
steps to follow for deployment and initial con guration of  Dell EMC
Unity VSA.

Key features:

Provides a software-de ned version of Dell EMC Unity storage

Available in 10, 20, or 50 TB – lower capacities upgrade

seamlessly to 50 TB

Sets up for NAS and SAN in minutes

Uni es block, le, and VMware VVols support

Enables VMware administrators to manage storage from VMware

vCenter

Installation requirements

Resources –  A 64-bit ESXi host running 5.5 or later that meets the

following requirements.

Note:- It is recommended to use ESXi version 6.0 or later. To support

VVols, the ESXi host must be running at least 6.0.

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 License requirements: While there are no further licensing or FOLLOW VMARENA
registration requirements to run Dell EMC UnityVSA for non-
production use, if you are ready to purchase Dell EMC UnityVSA,

contact your Sales Associate, Dell EMC Authorized Reseller, or

visit Dell EMC UnityVSA in the Dell EMC Store. RECENT POSTS

Activate Your Dell EMC UnityVSA: Get Your System License for Full
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System Requirements:
Physical to Virtual Migration – Part
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Infrastructure Requirements – Common to all use cases:
Convert VHD to VHDX using
vCenter version:  5.5 update 2 or later Hyper-V Manager and Powershell

ESXi: 5.5 – 6.5 VMworld 2019 US Sessions

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Web-Browser: Chrome v57, IE v10, FireFox v52, Safari v6 or
Reclaiming Space using TRIM
later
UNMAP in Windows

Number of ESX hosts: Equal to the number of Dell EMC

UnityVSA nodes needed (1:1 mapping)

Dell EMC UnityVSA

 RAM for each Dell EMC UnityVSA VM: 12 GB

vCPU for each Dell EMC UnityVA VM: 2vCPU

Physical Server Requirements: Dual Core CPU 64-bit x86

Intel 2GHz+ (SSE4.2 or greater)

Hardware RAID Controller: 512MB NV Cache and Battery

Backed (recommended) CATEGORIES

Type of HDDs: SATA, SAS, SSD

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I/O Ports (Front End or External): 1GbE / 10GbE

Physical Memory Requirements: 16GB (ESXi 5.5) or 18GB

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 Review the details and “Accept extra con guration options”

Provide the Name for the VSA and select a folder and click next

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 Specify the Storage from available list and click next , you may select

the VM storage policy from here

Choose the required networks  and click next

Note:- There will be a management port and Data Network Ports

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 Next Customize the template you can specify the System Name, IPv4

Management and IPv6.  Leave the IPs blank if you want to use DHCP
and click next

Review the details and  click on nish to start the Deployment

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 You may select the power on after deployment option or once

deployment completed  you can power on  . It may take 10-20

minutes for UnityVSA to be up and running.

After the deployment you add new hard disk in VSA by editing the

settings which you want to use o use for VSA storage.

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 Initial Con guration Wizard

Once the VSA is up and running start the Initial Con guration by
accessing VSA console from web-browser using the Management IP
and using the default admin credentials

Introduction Page will popup initially Click Next to continue

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 Accept License Agreement and Click Next

Set the new admin and service account passwords , they can be set to
the same by selecting the option “set service password the same as
admin password ”

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 Add the DNS servers and click next

Add the NTP Server

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 Next is License the VSA by using the System UUID identi ed

Activate Your Dell EMC UnityVSA: Get Your System License for Full
Functionality using the System UUID to create the license

Download the License File

Note if the license le is opening new page you can copy the content
to notepad and save it as .lic extension

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 Browse and upload the license le and click Finish

After the successful message you may close the page to proceed

other settings

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 Next option is create pool , you may create for now or create later ,

we are skipping this now and will publish another post for con guring
this .

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 Specify the Email and SMTP and click Next

If you have proxy server in your environment , specify them else skip

this step

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 Create any iSCSI Network interfaces now or skip this by click next ,

we will discussing this later in another post

Create any NAS Servers or con gure it later , here skip this since will

explain it later .

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 Now the Initial Con guration is complete ad you may close the page

Next you can access the console with capacity of the disk available  .

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 Reference – Dell EMC Unity VSA Installation Guide

Conclusion

We have shared small overview of  EMC Dell UnityVSA  and

deployment steps and initial con guration also here . We are

deployed the current latest version Unity VSA 4.4.0 and it is top of

vSphere 6.7 host for VMware SRM testing purpose. We will be

sharing more blog posts of other con guration required for ISCSI ,
NAS , Replication etc .

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