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Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack User’s Guide

Contents

Contents .......................................................................... 3

Preface ............................................................................ 7

Intended Audience ................................................................ 8

Release Notes ....................................................................... 8

Document Conventions .......................................................... 8

Getting Help ......................................................................... 9

Comments ..........................................................................10

1 Overview ....................................................................... 11

About the Adapter ................................................................12

Basic Architecture ................................................................12

2 System Requirements ...................................................... 15

Hardware Requirements ........................................................16

Server ..............................................................................16

Host Interface ....................................................................16

Storage Models ..................................................................16

Device Type ......................................................................17

Volume Type .....................................................................17

Software Requirements .........................................................17

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Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack User’s Guide

License Key....................................................................... 17

Additional Software Required ............................................... 18

Hitachi HORCM Device Setting ............................................. 18

Command Device Attributes ................................................ 18

Distribution Package .......................................................... 18

3 Installation ..................................................................... 19

Installing the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack ............................................................................... 20

Launching the Storage Adapter .............................................. 21

Registering the Hitachi Storage Resource Provider .................. 22

Setup for Secure Connection over HTTPS ................................ 23

Uninstalling the Hitachi Windows Azure Pack Storage Software .. 25

4 Performing Operations ..................................................... 27

About Windows Azure Pack ................................................... 28

Overview of Hitachi Storage for Azure Pack Components ........... 28

Hitachi Azure Admin Extension ............................................ 28

Hitachi Azure Tenant Extension ............................................ 29

Hitachi Storage Azure Resource Provider ............................... 29

Microsoft Azure Automation using Hitachi Storage Adapter ........ 29

Importing the Hitachi Storage module into Azure Automation ... 29

Sample Runbook for Hitachi Storage Operations in Azure Automation .................................................................. 31

Administrator Roles .............................................................. 33

Managing Resources and Virtual Machines ............................. 33

Managing Users, Plans, Subscriptions ................................... 33

Provisioning a Tenant Site ..................................................... 33

About Subscriptions ........................................................... 33

About Virtual Machines ....................................................... 33

Browsing a Tenant Site ....................................................... 33

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Creating a Tenant Login ......................................................33

Adding the SCVMM Server .....................................................34

Working with an SCVMM Cloud List .......................................34

Editing the SCVMM server ...................................................35

Removing an SCVMM server ................................................35

Managing Resources .............................................................35

Adding a Storage Subsystem ...............................................36

Adding a HUS modular storage system ..................................37

Removing a Storage Subsystem ...........................................38

Editing a Storage System ....................................................39

Storage Overview .................................................................39

Creating Storage Pools ........................................................39

Creating a HUS Storage Pool ................................................40

Expanding a Storage Pool ....................................................41

Expanding a HUS Storage Pool .............................................42

Delete a Storage Pool .........................................................44

Deleting a HUS Pool ............................................................44

Creating Alerts ...................................................................44

Working with Virtual Machines ...............................................47

Creating a Virtual Machine ...................................................47

Working with Virtual Machine States .....................................48

Starting/Stopping a Virtual Machine ......................................48

Pausing a Virtual Machine ....................................................50

Resuming a Virtual Machine .................................................50

Delete a Virtual Machine ......................................................51

Cloning a Virtual Machine ....................................................52

Adding a Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine ................................52

Managing Users ...................................................................56

Creating Plans ...................................................................56

Assigning Resources to Plans ...............................................58

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Making the Plan Available for Users ...................................... 60

Provisioning Subscriptions ..................................................... 62

Creating/Deleting Subscriptions for Users .............................. 62

Suspending the subscription ................................................ 65

Deleting a Subscription ....................................................... 65

Viewing Virtual Machine Count, Disk Size, and Memory Data of a Plan ............................................................................ 65

Adding a Subscription from the Tenant Portal ........................ 67

5 Troubleshooting .............................................................. 69

Refreshing Storage Information ............................................. 69

Installation Issues ................................................................ 69

Working with Support and Log Files ...................................... 70

Additional Settings ............................................................... 70

Things to do before Uninstallation .......................................... 72

Preface 7


Preface

This document describes Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack.

This preface includes the following information:

Intended Audience Software Version Release Notes Document Revision Level Document Conventions Getting Help Comments

Note The use of Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure PackHitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack and all other Hitachi Data Systems products is governed by the terms of your agreement(s) with Hitachi Data Systems.

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Intended Audience This document addresses customers of Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft®

Windows Azure Pack. This document assumes expertise in Microsoft® System Center and Windows Azure Pack.

Release Notes You can find release notes on the documentation CD. Release notes contain requirements and more recent product information that this manual may not be fully describe. Be sure to review the release notes before installation.

Document Conventions This document uses the following typographic conventions:

Convention Description

Bold Indicates text on a window, other than the window title, including menus, menu options, buttons, fields, and labels. Example: Click OK.

Italic Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system. Example: copy source-file target-file Note: Angled brackets (<>) also indicate variables.

screen/code Indicates text on the screen or that you enter. Example: # pairdisplay -g oradb

<> angled brackets

Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system. Example: # pairdisplay -g <group> Note: Italic font also indicates variables.

[ ] square brackets

Indicates optional values. Example: [a | b] indicates that you can select a, b, or nothing.

{ } braces Indicates required or expected values. Example: { a | b } indicates that you must select either a or b.

| vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments. Examples: [a | b] indicates that you can select a, b, or nothing. { a | b } indicates that you must select either a or b.

This document uses the following icons to draw attention to information:

Icon Label Description

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Note Calls attention to important and/or additional information.

Tip Provides helpful information, guidelines, or suggestions for performing tasks more effectively.

Caution Warns of adverse conditions and/or consequences (for example, disruptive operations).

WARNING Warns the user of severe conditions and/or consequences (for example, destructive operations).

Getting Help The Hitachi Data Systems Support Center staff is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provisions for patches and fixes are restricted to normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST.

To reach us, please visit the support Web site for current telephone numbers and other contact information: http://www.hds.com/services/support/. If you purchased this product from an authorized HDS reseller, contact that reseller for support.

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Before calling the Hitachi Data Systems Support Center, please provide as much information about the problem as possible, including:

The circumstances surrounding the error or failure. The exact content of any error message(s) displayed on the host

system(s).

Comments Please send us your comments on this document: [email protected]. Include the document title, number, and revision, and refer to specific section(s) and paragraph(s) whenever possible.

Thank you! (All comments become the property of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation.)

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Overview

This chapter describes Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack software.

Microsoft Windows Azure Pack (WAP) is an environment that users can deploy in their datacenters to provide an Azure-like experience.

Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft partner hosted datacenters. It allows you to create a self-service portal for your private cloud and enables Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to internal users.

The Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack is a self-service platform residing in the WAP environment that provides capabilities to automate LUN provisioning, create and manage virtual machines in a Hyper-V private cloud environment.

It extends the WAP functionality to deliver a private cloud experience to internal users. Currently supported Hitachi Storage subsystems are models from the HUS, HUS VM, VSP, VSP G1000, VSP Gx00, VSP Fx00 and VSP Gx00 Unified series.

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About the Adapter The Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack enables cloud administrators to:

Register Hitachi enterprise storage subsystems Monitor storage capacity Create Hitachi storage pools as Azure resources Create storage profiles Create a service plan with Hitachi storage resources and storage

profiles Assign a Hitachi storage service plan to a tenant, or customer.

Depending on the level of support, a user of the portal may be able to: Subscribe to a public plan. Create a new virtual machine in the virtual machine cloud by

selecting a storage pool. Manage existing virtual machines in the virtual machine cloud.

Basic Architecture The Hitachi Storage Adapter for Windows Azure Pack is a multi-layered environment that contains several components that interact with one another. They include the following entities:

SCVMM Client SCVMM Server Hyper-V Server Hitachi Storage System PowerShell Storage instance

Review the following figure and then go through the explanations for the various stages of activities.

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1. The SCVMM server and the SCVMM client running Hitachi’s HORCM utility, occur on server platforms and are in contact with one another.

2. A virtual machine is created on the SCVMM server using a selected template.

3. The SCVMM client also creates a LUN in the Hitachi Storage System, for example, a VSP G1000.

4. The LUN is mounted on a Hyper-V server where the virtual machine instance is populated.

5. The SCVMM Server selects the best rated Hyper-V host when it attempts to mount the LUN one of the servers.

6. Multiple Hyper-V servers contain PowerShell Storage instances that manage the stored data.

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System Requirements 15


System Requirements

Hardware Requirements Software Requirements

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Hardware Requirements

Server Item Minimum Requirements Note

Servers One Server

CPU One 2GHz or faster Intel/AMD processor

Recommended: four CPUs at 500MHz each

Memory 4 GB or more Graphics 1024x768, 24-bit color or more HDD Capacity

60 GB >=400MB on the drive that has the ${TMP} directory

Network Gigabit connection recommended

Host Interface Interface Supported

FC X iSCSI X

Storage Models Name Microcode Version Supported

Model Firmware Supported Hitachi Unified Storage 150 0981/B-S or newer X Hitachi Unified Storage VM 73-03-44-00/00 or newer X Virtual Storage Platform 70-06-35-00/00 or newer X Virtual Storage Platform G1000 80-04-01-00/00 or newer X

Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 83-03-01-40/00 or newer X

Virtual Storage Platform Fx00 83-03-01-40/00 or newer X

Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 Unified 83-03-21-40/01 or newer X

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Device Type Device Supported

Disk1 X

Volume Type Volume Type Supported

Normal X HDP X

Software Requirements

OS Version Supported

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 X Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 X Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 X Java 7 or higher X Microsoft Windows Azure Pack 3.24 X Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows PowerShell v06.2.0

X

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

X

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 X Hitachi CCI software v01-37-03/01 X

License Key Copy Method Platform

Hitachi Copy-on-write Snapshot Software HUS, VSP Hitachi ShadowImage Software VSP, VSP G1000, VSP Gx00,

VSP Fx00, HUS VM, VSP Gx00 Unified

Hitachi ThinImage Snapshot software HUS Hitachi ThinImage Snapshot software VSP G1000, VSP Gx00, VSP

Fx00, HUS VM, VSP Gx00 U Hitachi ShadowImage software HUS

1 We have not tested device types other than disks (such as third-party tape devices and corresponding libraries).

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Additional Software Required

The Windows-based Hitachi REST Web service must be installed on a Windows host (see Server above). The following prerequisites are required:

Microsoft .NET 4.5 Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable

Hitachi HORCM Device Setting

Before using Hitachi Storage Adapter, configure the Command Device for the storage array. The correct settings for the Command Device appear below.

Command Device Attributes Setting Result

Command Device Security

User Authentication Enables User Authentication, which checks for users who have been vetted to access this site.

Device Group Definition Enables you to set up a device group.

Distribution Package

The distribution package contains the following: Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack Installer User’s Guide Release Notes End User License Agreement

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Installation

This chapter provides detailed steps to install Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows® Azure Pack, and steps to add the Windows Azure Pack Storage Add-in in Windows Azure.

Installing the Hitachi Windows Azure Pack Storage Launching the Storage Adapter

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Installing the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack

To install the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack:

1. Double click on Hitachi-Windows-Azure-Pack-Storage-Setup(01.1.0)-(x64).exe to run the setup wizard and click Next.

2. The Hitachi Windows Azure Pack Storage software displays the Database Server dialog box.

3. Fill in the database authentication information.

4. Click Next.

5. If the Database from a previous installation exists a confirmation will be propmted, proceed based on one of the following two conditions.

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6. If you want to retain old database, select Yes.

7. If you want to create new instance, select No.This will delete the existing Database and create a new one. Click Next.

8. Click Install.

9. The Hitachi Windows Azure Pack Storage software installs to the following path:

C:\ProgramFiles\Hitachi\HiWAPStorage

10. To verify successful installation, check the Programs folder and locate the program called Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack.

Launching the Storage Adapter To launch the storage adapter, perform the following steps:

1. Open Windows Azure in the web browser by entering the following URL: https://localhost:30091/

2. Click Hitachi Cloud Solution in the left navigation pane.

The Hitachi Storage Adapter environment launches.

https://localhost:30091/

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Registering the Hitachi Storage Resource Provider

To register the Hitachi Storage Resource Provider, perform the following steps:

3. Launch the Quickstart page by clicking on the cloud icon on the left navigation pane.

4. Click Hitachi Clouds.

The Register Hitachi Storage Resources Provider window displays.

The following table details all the fields in the Register Hitachi Storage Resources Provider screen.

Field Description Value

Service URL The URL the user will use to access their plan.

http://hostname:23000 https://hostname:23001

User Name A string between 6 and 32 ASCII characters long that identifies the user name supplied when the user logs into their storage system.

Admin

Password A string between 6 and 32 ASCII characters long that identifies the user password to be supplied after entering the login name for logging into their storage system.

pass@word1

SQL Server A string between 6 and 32 SQL Server Name

http://hostname:23000/

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Field Description Value (FQDN) ASCII characters long that

identifies the node. SQL Server User Name

A string between 6 and 32 ASCII characters long that identifies the login name for logging into their SQL database.

ServiceAccn

SQL Server Password

A string between 6 and 32 ASCII characters long that identifies the user password to be supplied after entering the login name for logging into their SQL database.

Hitachi2

1. Enter information in the Service URL field.

2. Enter a user name and password in the User Name and Password fields respectively.

3. Enter a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in the SQL Server (FQDN) field.

4. Click on Complete button.

5. On successful registration, following message is displayed:

"Successfully registered Hitachi Storage Resource Provider"

Setup for Secure Connection over HTTPS To generate a certificate and set up IIS, perform the following tasks:

1. Open the IIS Manager and navigate to the server in the left navigation pane.

2. Select the host name connection from the left panel.

3. Open Server Certificates.

4. From the right navigation pane, click Create Self-Signed Certificate as shown in the following figure.

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5. Enter a friendly name and click Ok.

6. Expand the left navigation pane, then select Sites > Default Web Site.

7. Choose Bindings from the right navigation pane.

8. Click Add.

9. Select https from the Type list box and enter port 23001 and select the self-signed certificate which you just generated.

10. Click Ok.

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11. Refresh the web site and try connecting a resource provider with the https binding.

Note The self signed certificate needs to be created for the very first

installation of the adapter and can be used during subsequent updates. The https binding needs to be added for every installation or update of the adapter version.

Uninstalling the Hitachi Windows Azure Pack Storage Software

You can uninstall the Hitachi Storage Adapter Windows Azure Pack software simply by performing the following steps:

1. Go to Programs and Features.

2. Double-click on the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack entry to display the installation/uninstallation script.

3. Navigate through the prompts from the script.

After showing splash screens, the script prompts you to make a decision about database deletion, as shown below.

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4. You can either delete the database or keep the database.

5. If you click Yes, it will delete the database.

6. If you click No, it will keep the current database.

7. Follow the uninstaller steps to complete uninstallation.

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Performing Operations

About Windows Azure Pack Overview of Hitachi Storage Adapter for Windows Azure Pack Administrator Roles Provisioning a Tenant Site Working with Virtual Machines Provisioning Subscriptions Provisioning the Tenant Site Adding a Storage Subsystem Storage Overview Working with the Cloud List

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About Windows Azure Pack The Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack is a self-service platform residing in the WAP environment that provides capabilities to automate LUN provisioning, create and manage virtual machines in a Hyper-V private cloud environment.

It is based on Windows Azure Pack SDK. Windows Azure Pack Services Windows Azure Pack Web Sites IIS Manager

Overview of Hitachi Storage for Azure Pack Components The Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack consists of the following components:

Hitachi Azure Admin Extension

This component is installed on the Microsoft Windows Azure Pack Admin site. It enables the administrator to manage storage systems and cloud environments. In addition, the administrator can create a plan and provision a subscription to a tenant, or an end-user, which will use Hitachi storage to create a virtual machine.

The following table details the Hitachi Clouds Administration Tab.

Tab Description

Quickstart Enables you to register the following endpoints: System Center Service Provider Foundation endpoint Hitachi cloud resource provider endpoint

Alerts Displays warning and critical alert status for the parity group and dynamic pools

Subsystems Provides registered subsystem information and the storage pool (parity group and dynamic pool) information

Pools Provides dynamic pool information of selected subsystem and management functionality for creating, expanding, and deleting dynamic pools

Clouds Provides cloud information for the registered SCVMM



Hitachi Azure Tenant Extension

This component is installed on the Microsoft Windows Azure Pack Tenant site and enables the tenant to subscribe to the Hitachi service plan and manage and create a virtual machine which uses Hitachi storage.

Hitachi Storage Azure Resource Provider

This component is an underlying service that performs administrator and tenant extension tasks.

Microsoft Azure Automation using Hitachi Storage Adapter Microsoft Azure Automation enables you to automate common tasks performed in a cloud and enterprise environment. Automation enables performance improvement, time savings, and integrity of the task regimen. The automation sets processes to occur at predefined times.

You can automate the process using the runbooks utility or automate configuration management using Desired State Configuration. The runbook process is a series of actions that produce automated processes in Azure Automation. Runbooks in Azure Automation are based on Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Workflow, so they can perform identical tasks to PowerShell ones.

Importing the Hitachi Storage module into Azure Automation

Once the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows PowerShell adapter is installed, the Hitachi Storage module will be available in the location below in case of default installation.

To import the Hitachi Storage module into Azure Automation, perform the following:

1. Unzip the following zip file:

C:\Program Files\Hitachi\HiPSSnapin\SMA\Hitachi_Storage.zip

2. Go to the Microsoft Azure Portal and click Automation.

3. Click the Assets tab.



4. Click Import Module at the bottom of the screen.

5. Upload the Hitachi_Storage.zip file and extract the modules in the file.

6. Once the modules are extracted, it should be available in the Assets section as shown here.



Sample Runbook for Hitachi Storage Operations in Azure Automation

To create a sample runbook for Hitachi Storage Operations in Azure Automation:

1. Go to the Microsoft Azure Portal and then Automation.

2. Click New to create a new runbook.

3. Click Quick Create and enter the Runbook details.

4. Once you have created a runbook version, click the newly created runbook and select Author.

5. Click Draft.

6. Add the desired cmdlets to the workflow and click Save.



7. Click Test to test the workflow. Check the output pane for the results.



Administrator Roles

Managing Resources and Virtual Machines

The Administrator client performs basic administration functions for fundamental entities in the environment. It manages resources and virtual machines.

Managing Users, Plans, Subscriptions

The Administrator client performs administration functions at the tenant, or end-user level, for example, creating and managing users, assigning plans to users, and enabling users to obtain subscriptions.

Provisioning a Tenant Site Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack enables you to provision a tenant site by performing the following tasks:

Adding a subscription Browsing a tenant site Creating a tenant login

About Subscriptions

Subscriptions help you organize access to cloud service resources. They also help you control how resource usage is reported, billed, and paid for. Each subscription can have a different billing and payment setup, so you can have different subscriptions and different plans by department, project, regional office, and so on. Every cloud service belongs to a subscription, and the subscription ID may be required for programmatic operations.

About Virtual Machines

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines allow you to deploy a wide range of computing solutions in an agile way. With Virtual Machines, you can deploy nearly instantaneously and you pay only by the minute. With Windows, Linux, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and BizTalk, you can deploy any workload, any language, on nearly any operating system.

Browsing a Tenant Site

You can browse a tenant site.

Creating a Tenant Login

You can create Tenant Login to access tenant information like plans and subscriptions. A sample Tenant Login screen displays here.



Adding the SCVMM Server To add the SCVMM Server, perform the following steps:

1. In the left navigation pane, click Hitachi Clouds.

2. Click Cloud.

3. Click New in the bottom ribbon and click Add SCVMM Server.

4. Fill in the required information and click the Add SCVMM check to add this SCVMM Server.

Working with an SCVMM Cloud List

The SCVMM cloud list enables you to learn some helpful information about your configuration.

To view the SCVMM private cloud list, perform the following steps:

1. In the left navigation pane, click Hitachi Clouds.

2. Click Cloud.

3. Hitachi Storage Adapter Windows Azure Pack displays the following list of SCVMM servers.



4. Note some of the following interesting details of a specific SCVMM Server. The list indicates how many virtual machines are mapped to the

server. The list indicates how much memory each server has. The list indicates the administrative state for each server.

Editing the SCVMM server

To edit the SCVMM Server, perform the following steps:

1. Click an SCVMM server to select it.

2. Click Edit SCVMM Server.

3. Fill in the required information and click the Edit SCVMM check to commit the new values you created for this SCVMM Server.

Removing an SCVMM server

To remove the SCVMM Server, perform the following steps:

1. Click an SCVMM server to select it.

2. Click Remove SCVMM Server.

3. Press Ok to remove the SCVMM Server.

Managing Resources Hitachi Storage Adapter for Windows Azure Pack enables you to manage many facilities provided by both the adapter software and the Azure environment. The following sections detail these tasks.



Adding a Storage Subsystem

To add and register a subsystem, follow these steps:

From the Windows Azure Pack add-ins panel, click on NEW in the bottom ribbon.

1. Click Add Storage. The New dialog box appears.

2. Click New.

3. Click Add Enterprise Storage. To add HUS-VM, VSP, VSP G1000, VSP Gx00, VSP Gx00 Unified and VSP Fx00, the parameters are as follows:

Serial (Integer) User Name (String) Password (String) Device IP Address (String) HORCM Instance (Integer)

The HORCM instance is optional, if you don’t provide the value the adapter will create an instance for you. Ensure that a command device is mapped before attempting the Add Enterprise Storage operation.

Click the ADD ENTERPRISE STORAGE button.After the storage information is retrieved, the Storage Overview and Storage Details panel displays it. The list continues to display for subsequent sessions.



Adding a HUS modular storage system

To add an HUS modular storage system, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the Hitachi Clouds screen.

2. Click the Storages tab.

The Storages list displays as shown in the following figure:

3. In the lower left corner of the screen, click New.

The Add Storage screen displays.

4. Click Add Modular Storage in the center column.

The Add Modular Storage configuration screen displays as shown in the following figure:



5. Enter the address of the primary controller for an HUS modular storage system in the Controller0 field.

6. Enter the address of the secondary controller for an HUS modular storage system in the Controller1 field.

7. Click Add Modular Storage.

WAP adds the new HUS modular storage system to the storage system list as shown in the following figure.

8. Go to the next section to configure the HUS modular storage system.

Removing a Storage Subsystem

To remove a storage subsystem, perform the following steps:

1. Click Storage Subsystem in the Storage panel.

2. Click Remove Storage Device and click Ok.



Editing a Storage System

1. Click Storage Subsystem in the Storage panel.

2. Click Edit Storage Subsystem. The Edit Storage Subsystem displays with the Serial and User Name fields inactive.

3. Change values in the fields to the desired new value.

4. Click the checkmark. You have successfully edited the storage subsystem.

Storage Overview To see the list of configured storage arrays, click on the Storage button. In this window, storage systems are shown as a tabular form, with SERIAL, MODEL, IP ADDRESS, TOTAL CAPACITY, FREE CAPACITY.

Below is a screen shot of the Storage Overview window.

Creating Storage Pools

To create a storage pool on Enterprise Storage, perform the following steps:

1. From the left navigation pane, click Hitachi Clouds.

2. The Hitachi Clouds screen displays.



3. Click Storages. The Storages screen displays.

4. Identify the storage system that contains the storage pool that you want to expand and click the right arrow in its cell.

5. The Pools window displays with a list of existing storage pools.

6. Hitachi Adapter WAP software displays the Pools Available in the Storage Subsystem list, indicating information about storage pools.

4. Click Add POOL.

5. Fill in the required data in the form.

6. Click OK to finish wizard.

Creating a HUS Storage Pool

To create a storage pool on HUS modular storage system, perform the following steps.



3. Select a HUS modular storage system.

4. Click the right arrow in the Serial column. WAP displays the Pools list.

5. Click Add Pool to display the Pools Configuration screen as shown in the following figure:



6. Select a drive type in the Drive Type list box.

7. Select a RAID level (1-6) in the RAID Type list box.

8. Select the number of drives, of the drive count value, in the Drive Count list box.

9. Select the capacity of the drive you are configuring in the Physical Drive Capacity list box. The default value is 100.

10. Select the RAID striping size in the Stripe Size list box.

11. Click the checkmark to commit the settings.

The Pools list redisplays with the new pool added for the HUS modular storage system.

Expanding a Storage Pool

You can expand the amount of storage allocated to a specific storage pool.

To expand a storage pool onEnterprise Storage, perform the following tasks:

1. From the left navigation pane, click Hitachi Clouds.

The Hitachi Clouds screen displays.

2. Click Storages.

The Storages screen displays.



3. Identify the storage system that contains the storage pool that you want to expand and click the right arrow in its cell.

The Pools window displays with a list of existing storage pools.

4. Identify the storage pool that you want to expand and click it to select it.

5. Click Expand Pool Volume.

The Expand HDP Storage Pool Volume screen as shown in below image.

6. Select a parity group value from the Parity Group list box.

7. Type a desired value that will expand the total size of the storage pool you are configuring.

8. Click the checkmark.

You have now successfully expanded the current HDP storage pool volume.

Expanding a HUS Storage Pool

You can expand the amount of storage allocated to a specific storage pool for HUS Modular Storage Subsystem.

To expand a HUS Modular Storage Subsystem pool, perform the following tasks:



1. From the left navigation pain, click Hitachi Clouds. The Hitachi Clouds screen displays.

2. Click Storages.


3. Identify the HUS Modular Storage Subsystem that contains the storage pool that you want to expand and click the right arrow in its cell.

4. The Pools window displays with a list of existing storage pools for modular storage subsystems.

5. Identify the storage pool you want to expand and click it to select it.

6. Click Expand Pool Volume to expand the selected pool.

The following screen displays to indicate you successfully expanded the pool volume for the modular storage subsystem.



Delete a Storage Pool

You can expand the amount of storage allocated to a specific storage pool.

To delete a storage pool, perform the following tasks:

1. From the left navigation pane, click Hitachi Clouds. The Hitachi Clouds screen displays.

2. Click Storages.


3. Identify the storage system that contains the storage pool that you want to delete and click the right arrow in its cell.

4. The Pools window displays with a list of existing storage pools.

5. Identify the storage pool that you want to delete and click it to select it.

6. Click on Delete Pool to delete selected Pool.

Deleting a HUS Pool

To delete a HUS pool, perform the following steps:



3. Identify a HUS modular storage system and click the right arrow in it. WAP displays the Pools screen with a list of pools mapped to the HUS system you selected as shown in the following figure:

4. Click the pool you want to delete and click Delete Pool at the bottom of the screen.

You have successfully deleted the pool.

Creating Alerts

To create Alerts in the WAP environment, perform the following tasks:



Create a plan Subscribe to the plan View the Alerts environment

1. Click the Plan icon in the navigation pane to display going to the Plans screen as shown in the following figure:

2. Click a plan to which you want to subscribe. WAP displays the Plan Services environment as shown in the following figure.

3. Click the arrow in the Hitachi Cloud Solution column head. The Hitachi Cloud Solution screen displays as shown in the following figure:



4. Fill in the fields as needed.

5. Go to the Alerts screen to view the new plan in a list as shown in the following screen:



Working with Virtual Machines The following sections detail how to work with virtual machines.

Creating a Virtual Machine

To create a virtual machine, perform the following steps in Windows Azure Pack Tenant Site:

1. Log in to the tenant portal using tenant’s credentials. The All Items window displays.

3. Click New, and then click Hitachi Clouds. Finally, click Create Virtual Machine.

4. The New screen displays with the Create Virtual Machine fields visible.



5. Fill in the fields and click Create. You have successfully created a virtual machine.

Working with Virtual Machine States

A virtual machine can be in three states: Power Off: The virtual machine is not running. Running: The virtual machine is actively operating, receiving packets

from connected nodes. Pause: The virtual machine is a temporary holding state. It is neither

off or running.

The following sections detail how to alter each of the virtual machine states.

Starting/Stopping a Virtual Machine

To start and stop a virtual machine, perform the following steps:

1. Make sure you are logged in as a Tenant. If not, log in as a tenant in the Tenant Login screen:



2. From the environment, click Hitachi Cloud.

All current virtual machines that have been mapped to the tenant display in the virtual machine list.

3. Locate the virtual machine that you want to start or stop in the virtual machine list. View its on/off state in the State column.

4. Click the virtual machine to select it.

5. Perform one of the following two actions, depending on the state of the screen.



If the State column is PowerOff, click Start at the bottom of the screen.

If the State column is Running, click Stop at the bottom of the screen.

Pausing a Virtual Machine

You may want to temporarily remove the virtual machine from a running state so that you can create a clone of the machine or perform other tasks that require the virtual machine to not be running. By placing the virtual machine in a PowerOff state, there may be more overhead. By simply pausing the machine, you can go out of running state quickly with little interruption.

To pause a virtual machine, perform the following steps:

1. Make sure you are logged in as a Tenant. If not, log in as a tenant in the Tenant Login screen.


3. All current virtual machines that have been mapped to the tenant display in the virtual machine list.

4. Locate the virtual machine that you want to start or stop in the virtual machine list. View its on/off state in the State column.


6. Click Pause at the bottom of the window.

7. The virtual machine ceases to be in a running state.

Resuming a Virtual Machine




4. Locate the virtual machine that you want to start or stop in the virtual machine list. View its on/off state in the State column. If it says Pause, then you need to place the virtual machine back in a running state.


6. Look at the Status column in the SCVVM Jobs – Recent Jobs to verify the state of the virtual machine.

7. Click Resume.



Delete a Virtual Machine




4. Locate the virtual machine that you want to start or stop in the virtual machine list.


6. Click Delete.

7. The Hitachi Storage Adapter for Windows Azure Pack removes the virtual machine from the virtual machine’s list.



Cloning a Virtual Machine

To clone a virtual machine, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the Hitachi Clouds area.

2. Click Clone VM.

Click Clone VM as shown in the following figure.

Adding a Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine

To add a hard disk to a virtual machine, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the Hitachi Clouds area.

2. Click New.

3. Click Add Hard Drive as shown in the following figure.



The hard drive list displays. A message at the lower left indicates that a hard drive was successfully added as shown in the following figure.

You now need to go to the Virtual Machines information area. To do that, click on the Virtual Machine you want to go to. The Virtual Machine list displays.

4. Right click on it. A popup menu displays as shown in the following figure.



5. Click Settings. The following screen appears.



6. Click Hard Drive to display the following screen.

Managing Users As the administrator, you can manage the consumer’s resources. The following sections detail how to perform user management tasks.

Creating Plans

A plan is a compact between the vendor and the consumer that details how the consumer, or tenant, will operate with their Hitachi Storage Windows Azure Pack environment.

To create a plan, perform the following steps:

1. In the left navigation pane, click Plans.

2. Click New.



3. Hitachi Storage Adapter Windows Azure Pack displays the “Author a Hosting Plan” window.

4. Type a friendly name in the plan name field and click the right arrow.

5. Click the Hitachi Cloud Solution checkbox and click the right arrow.

6. Click Complete to successfully create a Plan.



Assigning Resources to Plans

Once you have created a plan, you can configure or modify attributes, or resources, mapped to it. The software displays the Plans screen with the new plan displaying in the Name field.

To assign resources to a plan, perform the following steps:

1. In the Name field, click the arrow to the right of new plan name. The specific plan details screen displays.



2. From the Plan Services area in the lower left portion of the screen, click the arrow in the Hitachi Cloud Solution column.

3. The Hitachi Cloud Solution screen displays the below screen.



4. The Hitachi Cloud Solution window contains two portions:

The SCVMM Cloud portion (the top portion) is where the virtual machine is created.

The Storage portion (the lower portion) is where the virtual machine will be stored.

5. Fill out the information in the SCVMM Cloud portion. Then go to the Storage portion.

6. Fill out the fields in the Storage portion.

7. In the Storage Connection Type list, click either FibreChannel or iSCSI.

8. Fill out the fields in the VM Clone Setting portion.

9. In the VM Clone Method list, click either Shadow Image or HTI. If you click Shadow Image, the lists below it become inactive. If you click HTI, both the Replication Storage Pool and Management

Storage Pool lists become active. Place a value between 0 and 5 in each of these lists.

10. Click Ok.

11. You have successfully created a plan.

Making the Plan Available for Users

Now that you have created both a plan and a subscription, you need to make the plan available for users.

To make the plan available to users, perform the following tasks:

1. From the left navigation pane, click User Accounts.



2. Click Accounts.

3. Identify the account that you want adjust, and click the right arrow in the cell.

4. Click Subscription.

5. The Add New Subscription screen displays with a list of active plans.

6. Select a plan and click the checkmark.

7. You have now successfully made the plan available to users.

Configuring Settings from the SCVMM Server Region

From the SCVMM Server region of the Hitachi Cloud Solution screen, configure the followings tasks:

Item Description

Clouds Enables you to select a cloud to provision the VM Select Template List Enables you to select a template from a list to use

to provision the LUN on the Hyper-V server. Max VM Count Indicates how many virtual machines will be

created by the customer plan. Maximum value: 25

Max VM Memory (MB)

Enables you to boost or decrease in megabytes the combined memory for all virtual machines created for the plan. An example value would be 4,096 MB (4 GB).

Configuring Settings from the Storage Region

From the Storage region of the Hitachi Cloud Solution screen, configure the followings tasks:

Item Description

Storage Enables you to select a storage subsystem Storage Pool Selects a storage pool from an existing pool in a list

and maps it to the storage system. Disk Size (GB) Establishes the maximum amount of combined disk

space for the plan. By boosting the disk size value, the disk can accommodate more data.



Provisioning Subscriptions You can create a user subscription to a plan. The following tasks detail how to create a subscription.

Creating/Deleting Subscriptions for Users

Before you create a subscription to a plan, you need to create a user to add to the subscription.

To create a new user, perform the following steps:

1. In the left navigation pane, click User Accounts.

2. The User Accounts screen displays.

3. Click New.

The new screen displays.



4. In the New screen, click Quick Create.

The screen expands to display fields to fill in to create a new user.

5. Fill in the fields and click Create.

The Accounts screen appears with the new user name displayed.



6. Click on the right arrow in the new user cell in the User column.

The Manage Account Subscriptions screen displays with the newly created description in the Subscriptions column.

7. Click the newly created subscription to view details. The subscription details screen displays. View the top of the screen to determine if you successfully created the subscription. If you did, the following text displays:



ACTIVE Subscription is successfully provisioned and can be used.

Suspending the subscription

To suspend a subscription, perform the following tasks.


2. Click Accounts.

3. The User Accounts screen displays with a list of subscriptions.

4. Locate the subscription you want to suspend in the Accounts list.

5. Click the subscription to select it.

6. Click Suspend in the lower portion of the screen.

7. The subscription suspends.

Deleting a Subscription

To delete a subscription, perform the following tasks.


2. Click Accounts.

3. The User Accounts screen displays with a list of subscriptions.

4. Locate the subscription you want to suspend in the Accounts list.

5. Click the subscription to select it.

6. Click Delete in the lower portion of the screen.

7. A confirmation message displays asking you to confirm that you want to delete the subscription.

8. Click Yes.

9. You have successfully delete the subscription.

Viewing Virtual Machine Count, Disk Size, and Memory Data of a Plan

You may find it helpful to view basic details of your plan and subscription. You can view how many virtual machines have been created for your plan, how much space has been allocated to your disk, and how much memory has been allotted.

To view basic details of your plan, perform the following tasks:




2. The User Accounts screen displays.

3. Click Accounts.

4. The Accounts screen displays with a list of all current plans.

5. Identify the plan you want to review and click the right arrow.

6. The Manage Account Subscriptions screen displays with a list of all subscriptions to the plan.

7. Identify the subscription you want to review and double click it.

8. The Dashboard screen displays detailing virtual machine count, disk size and memory data.

9. Review the screen to learn about the attributes of the subscription.



Adding a Subscription from the Tenant Portal

To manage from the tenant portal, perform the following steps:

1. From the left navigation pane, click My Account.

2. Click Subscriptions.

3. The My Account screen displays.

4. Click on the right arrow of the desired subscription.

5. Click New.

6. Click Add Subscription.

7. A list of public plans displays.

8. Click the desired public plan to select it.

9. Click the checkmark to add the subscription.

10. The My Account subscription list displays with the new subscription added to the User Account.

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Troubleshooting

Refreshing Storage Information Condition: After adding a storage system in Hitachi Storage Adapter, you do not see it in the GUI. Windows Azure Pack refreshes information automatically and takes time to refresh this information.

Response: Wait for 5 minutes or relaunch the Azure Pack site to get newly added storage information.

Installation Issues Condition: The installer did not successfully install the Add-In.

Response: Open the IIS environment and click Application pool available in the left navigation pane. Check to see if the MgmtSvc-HitachiStorage website status process has started.

Condition: Hitachi Cloud Service is not running.

Response: Open Service.msc and check if Hitachi WAP VM Cloud Storage Service is running.

Condition: Hitachi Storage Adapter Add-in for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack not running properly

Response: Go through the following checklist: Check that command devices are properly configured for each of the

RAID subsystems. Check that the SQL Server and System Center Virtual Machine

Manager nodes are configured properly. Check that the SQL Server is in the Authenticate by SQL Server and

Windows Authentication mode.

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Check that the database named HitachiStorageAzurePack was created successfully after installation.

Check that the storage device is in an unlocked state in Device Manager.

Click Application Pools in IIS. Then select MgmtSvc-HitachiStorage. Right click on this item and open Advanced Settings. Change the CLR version to V4.0. Set the identify to localSystem.

Condition: You are unable to add the storage subsystem.

Response: Go through the following checklist. Make sure that the user has the required privileges to add the

subsystem. Is the HORCM instance for storage running?

Condition: You are unable to add the SCVMM Server.

Response: Ping the FQDN. If you cannot reach it, troubleshoot the connection.

Working with Support and Log Files

Working with support and log files can be helpful to identify events and trends that can lead to root cause analysis and problem resolution.

To work with logs, perform the following steps:

1. Start the Hitachi Storage Adapter and perform the operations which are failing or having issues.

2. Go to location C:\Program Files\Hitachi\HiWAPStorage\Support.

3. Run HiSupport.bat file.

4. It will create Artifacts folder in same location.

5. Select the latest WAP-support.xxxx folder inside Artifacts folder.

6. Zip the content of the latest WAP-support.xxxx folder and send it along with the support request

Additional Settings

During Virtual machine creation, the operation might return failure message due to timeout issue. The error message is “Processing of the HTTP request resulted in an exception. Please see the HTTP response returned by the 'Response' property of this exception for details”.

Please follow the steps below in order to handle this issue:

1. Open Windows Azure Pack Administration Powershell console.

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2. Run the command cd C:\inetpub\MgmtSvc-AdminAPI

3. Run the command Unprotect-MgmtSvcConfiguration -Namespace AdminAPI.

4. Open the C:\inetpub\MgmtSvc-AdminAPI\web.config file using notepad.

5. Change the OutgoingCallsDefaultTimeoutInSeconds value to 3600.

6. Save the change in the web.config file.

7. Run the command Protect-MgmtSvcConfiguration -Namespace AdminAPI.

8. Run the command cd C:\inetpub\MgmtSvc-TenantAPI.

9. Run the command Unprotect-MgmtSvcConfiguration -Namespace TenantAPI.

10. Open C:\inetpub\MgmtSvc-TenantAPI\web.config file using notepad.

11. Change the OutgoingCallsDefaultTimeoutInSeconds value to 3600

12. Save the change in the web.config file.

13. Run the command Protect-MgmtSvcConfiguration -Namespace TenantAPI.

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User’s Guide

Things to do before Uninstallation All the subscriptions and the plans should be deleted before un-installing the Azure adapter together with the database.

After the un-installation with the database, perform the following steps to un-register Hitachi Resource Provider :

$rpName = 'hitachicloudservices'

$rp = Get-MgmtSvcResourceProviderConfiguration -Name $rpName

$rp = Remove-MgmtSvcResourceProviderConfiguration -Name $rpName -InstanceId $rp.InstanceId

If the database is not required to be deleted, then the subscriptions, plan and the Hitachi resource provider configuration need not to be deleted.

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