UnityVSA on VMware Workstation ?

Robert, it is absolutely working with Workstation, however, it works not as smooth as the old Version, as some changes in the Boot Behaviour might cause the system to not fin additional disks or even panic.

I use a 2 Step Process.

One is import the OVA using the OVA Tool, and than adjust some settings:

Rule1: Use PVSCSI Adapter

Rule2. For firt boot, do not present drives other than the boot drives.

ones system has vonfigured with svc_initial_config, do a svc_shutdown --halt.

Present additional drives to your workstation VM

Boot Again, wait until system is up and continue with the Wizard.

Note that also the Registration of the UUID has changed, we no longer use the SP UUID for registration. There is now a System UUID that gets calculated randomly on the SP UUID.

If you need to have this automated, i did this with my labbuildr tool:

install unity falcon.ps1 · bottkars/labbuildr Wiki · GitHub

Worked perfectly fine for me!
Even during the internet outage here, labbuildr waited for me until i got the lic file.

Took about 15min until I had a clean Unity (4.1.1.9138882) up and running!

Regards,

Stephan

Hi Robert,

UnityVSA is not supported running on VMware Workstation, refer the following table for detail. But though "technically" I think it can work on it. It is not recommended if you deploy it in production environment. We suggest that you can deploy it into VMware ESXi 5.5 or above.

Also it might not always make sense, there are some good cases to use it on a Test / Dev laptop.

As community Edition IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION anyway, the initiator of the thread has to specify weather he wants to run community or Professional.

When it comes to Community Editions, we / the community try get thinks to run rather askink what might be supported and what not.

i can build, run destroy my community edition in minutes on my workstation for doing some crazy thing and deployment tests,

where in a controlled production environment i would not able to do so.

Happy to see the editions be available in the Azure Marketplace soon :-)

Hi Karsten,

I mean that it is not recommended if you deploy UnityVSA in workstation. You can deploy UnityVSA Community or Professional editions in ESXi host. The below table lists the difference between both editions.

Karsten Bott   : I succeeded to install UnityVSA in VMware Workstation 12.5.2

Main steps below:

- import OVF file into VMware Workstation

- change vmx file with "pvscsi" adapter type

- licensed & configured UnityVSA (without extra disks)

- I switched to Service Mode (UnityVSA rebooted)

- I added 2 new disks to VM (while OS was on Service Mode) and then rebooted the system

- after reboot, the 2 new disks were visible on the System and I was able to create 2 pools, changed IP address of the Management network, set 2 more NIC adapters with iSCSI purpose.

So , the system was running as it is running on VMware ESXi.

The system rebooted few times and I has very happy thinking I will succed to use the system on my LAB hosted on laptop (1 VC + 2 EXi hosts  for learning purpose) - after many failures and many hours effort in the past.

I mention I didn't perform any other changes on vmx config file. Today I started the system, the OS start loading services but somewhere in the middle I got a message from VMware Workstation informing the OS disconnected the CPU. Since that error I always get the message "Boot error".

I don't know what is wrong on the OS system; Since you built the script can you please let me know if your script is doing any changes on the OS that hosts EMC service/application or something else relating to the extra configuration file that is permitted on the VMware ESX environment?

Cheers,

Is there anyway to install the UnityVSA on VmWorkstation directly without going through Labbuildr?

TIA