• Contents
  • 1 About the chapters of this manual
  • 2 An introduction to Virtual Server Appliance
  • 3 Activate the VSA
  • 4 Configuration Assistant
  • 5 Install additional HELIOS products
  • 6 Linux Runtime
  • 7 Volume Management
  • A System and data disk migration
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Contents

• 1 About the chapters of this manual
• 2 An introduction to Virtual Server Appliance
  • 2.1 About licenses
    • 2.1.1 Linux (Debian)
    • 2.1.2 HELIOS Configuration Assistant
    • 2.1.3 HELIOS
• 3 Activate the VSA
  • 3.1 Virtualization platforms
    • 3.1.1 VMware ESX Server
    • 3.1.2 Microsoft Hyper-V
    • 3.1.3 Other virtualization solutions
  • 3.2 Log in for the first time
• 4 Configuration Assistant
  • 4.1 Notes on using the Configuration Assistant
  • 4.2 Configure the Virtual Server Appliance
    • 4.2.1 General setup (passwords, keyboard, time)
    • 4.2.2 Network setup (hostname, IP addresses, DHCP, NFS)
    • 4.2.3 Storage setup (data volumes)
    • 4.2.4 HELIOS services (start/stop, license, updates)
    • 4.2.5 Server administration (shutdown, reboot, active users)
    • 4.2.6 Show configuration summary
    • 4.2.7 Exit to shell
    • 4.2.8 Configuration Assistant log file
  • 4.3 Known issues
• 5 Install additional HELIOS products
• 6 Linux Runtime
  • 6.1 Single-user/recovery mode
  • 6.2 SSH server
  • 6.3 NFS services
    • 6.3.1 Features
    • 6.3.2 Enable/disable NFS services
    • 6.3.3 NFS usage scenarios
    • 6.3.4 NFS client and server platform specifics
    • 6.3.5 VSA Linux man pages related to RPC/​NFS
  • 6.4 Linux Java runtime
  • 6.5 Included Linux packages
  • 6.6 Root file system
• 7 Volume Management
  • 7.1 LVM overview
  • 7.2 Physical volumes
  • 7.3 Volume groups
  • 7.4 Logical volumes (file systems)
  • 7.5 Snapshots of logical volumes
    • 7.5.1 The benefit of snapshots
    • 7.5.2 How a snapshot works
    • 7.5.3 Performance considerations when using snapshots
    • 7.5.4 Activate HELIOS volumes on a snapshot
    • 7.5.5 Example snapshot description
  • 7.6 A typical “datavg” setup with a RAID
  • 7.7 Replace data disks or a RAID system
    • 7.7.1 Upgrade to a new RAID system
    • 7.7.2 Replace disks in an existing RAID
  • 7.8 Increase the existing “datavg” volume group size
    • 7.8.1 Add disk to the volume group
    • 7.8.2 Grow an existing disk
    • 7.8.3 Add new or grown disk(s) to the volume group
  • 7.9 Use a RAID 1 (mirroring) on the system disk
  • 7.10 Use a RAID 5 on the system disk
  • 7.11 Restore the operating system disk
  • 7.12 Summary
• A System and data disk migration
  • A.1 Migration overview
  • A.2 Migrate the system and data disks