{"id":12321,"date":"2012-04-11T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12321"},"modified":"2012-04-11T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:51:00","slug":"hp-p4000-vsa-fails-to-install-on-hyper-v-with-unmounting-the-configuration-drive-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12321","title":{"rendered":"HP P4000 VSA Fails To Install On Hyper-V With ‘Unmounting the configuration drive…’ Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SAN I\u2019m installing in the lab at work is a HP P4000 (Lefthand) virtual SAN appliance (VSA).  While the majority of the online conversation for the VSA centres on VMware, there is a supported Hyper-V VSA, and obviously that\u2019s the one I want to use.<\/p>\n

I set up the storage server, a HP DL370 G6 with lots of disk, and got W2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V up and running.  I didn\u2019t go Windows 8 beta because I only want to run RTM software for the underlying bits of the lab that don\u2019t get wiped\/etc \u2013 more on that once the lab environment is built.<\/p>\n

Then I ran the setup.exe for the VSA and that\u2019s where I wasted many hours because it kept failing with this error:<\/p>\n

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Installation Failed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Provider failure<\/em><\/p>\n

While ‘Unmounting the configuration drive…’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A search found one result and the suggestions in that forum post were about as helpful as standing on one foot, bouncing counter-clockwise, touching the tip of my nose, and signing the national anthem backwards.<\/p>\n

I decided to dig a little deeper and found that HVSA_Original.VHD was a compressed file.  Hmm \u2026 interesting!  I then did the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Uncompressed the HVSA_Original.VHD file and moved it to the folder where I\u2019d create my VSA VM<\/li>\n
  2. Created a new VM for the VSA in Hyper-V Manager<\/li>\n
  3. Attached HVSA_Original.VHD to the new VSA VM<\/li>\n
  4. Attached another new fixed VHD to the VM\u2019s SCSI controller<\/li>\n
  5. Powered up the VM \u2026 it appears to be based on CentOS<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cLogged into\u201d the VM and ran the setup wizard to set the hostname and IPv4 configuration<\/li>\n
  7. Set up the CMC to remotely configure and manage the VSA<\/li>\n
  8. Configured a P4000 cluster and provisioned a LUN<\/li>\n
  9. Bob\u2019s your uncle!  I think \"Winking I\u2019ve never managed a P4000 before.  EVA was much easier but P4000 has more potential, hence the complexity I suppose.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    The SAN I\u2019m installing in the lab at work is a HP P4000 (Lefthand) virtual SAN appliance (VSA).  While the majority of the online conversation for the VSA centres on VMware, there is a supported Hyper-V VSA, and obviously that\u2019s the one I want to use. I set up the storage server, a HP DL370 … Continue reading “HP P4000 VSA Fails To Install On Hyper-V With ‘Unmounting the configuration drive…’ Error”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[180,181,99,195,117],"class_list":["post-12321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hardware","tag-hyper-v","tag-storage","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t