One of my projects for the various Hitachi Data Systems classes I teach is to work up a "storage-free" lab environment. Even modular (AMS) storage arrays have a fairly hefty price tag, so I've wanted to set up the Hitachi Storage Command Suite in such a way that students could work with a HiRDB database seemingly populated with hosts and arrays, but not have those devices physically attached.
The first step is to get the HSCS running in a portable environment, and that's a success. I run Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. I created a VirtualBox virtual machine with 1GB memory and 40GB of disk space, then dropped Windows Server 2008 in it:
The basic Windows install went into the virtual machine with no difficulty.
When I tried this last year with VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox under earlier versions of Ubuntu, with earlier versions (6.1/6.2) of Device Manager, I had numerous installation issues. This time, HDvM installed without a hitch. I never nailed down exactly what was causing the problem at that point, but the combination of Server 2008 and HDvM 6.3 is a winner.
The standard verification of a HDvM install is to open a browser and see if you can talk to it. Yup, and licensing this install was no problem, either.
The Windows Agent for Device Manager installed with no problems as well! Since there's no storage for my laptop to discover, the only thing in the database is the server itself. It's there, though, so that's encouraging.
Next phase, an attempt to import a HiRDB database into this configuration.
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