Importing The Virtual Sp Into Hyper-V; Backing Up And Restoring The Virtual Sp; Creating A Backup Of The Virtual Sp; Take A Snapshot Using The Vsphere Client - HPE 3PAR StoreServ Software User's Manual

8. On the Disk Format screen, click to select the type of provisioning you want (thin provisioning is the
default), then click Next.
9. On the Ready to Complete screen, make sure that the Power on after deployment check box is
selected, then click Finish. The deployment will take about 10 minutes to complete.
CAUTION:
VMware vMotion is not a supported application. Do not use vMotion to migrate the VSP from one
physical server to another. Using vMotion may cause communication failure and interrupt system
service.

Importing the Virtual SP into Hyper-V

Procedure
1. From the DVD, download the appropriate virtual hard drive (VHD) package for the SP version that you
are running.
2. Right-click the file and then choose Run as Administrator.
3. At the prompt, enter the name of the virtual machine (VM) that you want to set, then press ENTER.
The import process starts.
NOTE:
If the network switches are not present on the host Hyper-V machine, you will receive an error
message, and the process will stop.
4. To verify that the VSP has been imported, locate the VSP name in the Virtual Machines area of the
Server Manager dialog box in the Hyper-V Manager application.

Backing Up and Restoring the Virtual SP

You can use either the vSphere Client or Hyper-V to create a backup of the Virtual SP or restore it to a
previous state. It is a best practice to backup after deploying and installing the Virtual SP. You can create
more than one backup of the same Virtual SP, you can also create backups even if the Virtual SP is
powered off.
The following sections describe how to backup the virtual SP and how to use a backup to restore the
virtual SP to a previous state.

Creating a Backup of the Virtual SP

Take a Snapshot using the vSphere Client

Take a Snapshot using the vSphere Client.
Procedure
1. In the vSphere Client, right-click the virtual SP, point to Snapshot, then click Take Snapshot.
2. In the Take Virtual Machine Snapshot dialog box, enter a name for the snapshot. Optionally, you can
enter a description for your snapshot.
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