Configure HPE StoreOnce Catalyst

It is time for us to add a deduplication appliance on our test environment. The cheapest way is getting a VSA and lucky HPE provide HPE StoreOnce Catalyst -1TB free.

1. Download the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst from HPE. Get the link below

2. Extract it and import into Vmware/Hyper-V Host. Depend on which platform that you download from HPE website.

3. By default, it will require 2 vcpu, 16GB of memory and disk 1 use 50GB. Create a thin provisioning disk - 1TB as 2nd Disk.

4. Boot up the VSA. Login using the following credential

username: Admin

password: admin

5. Type 

net set wizard to start the configuration

6. Follow the wizard to configure the network setting. Below is the screen shot of our configuration

• DNS - 192.168.0.149, 8.8.8.8
• Use Single Port
• eth1
• Static ip address - 192.168.0.206, 
• Subnet mask
• Gateway - 192.168.0.254

Once complete the configuration, you can use browser. Just use the static ip that you have entered in previous step.

Next is configure StoreOnce Catalyst Store. (StoreOnce Catalyst | Store | Create)
Example:

• Veeam-Repo1
• Primary Transfer Policy - Low Bandwidth
• Physical Disk size - 500GB

Set permission (Storeonce Catalyst | Clients | Add)

• Client - Veeam
• Description: Veeam Backup
• Password : (secret)
• Allow catalyst store creation, manage server properties, manage client permission

Simply right!. We just setup HPE StoreOnce Catalyst VSA and configure a Store. We will use this as Veeam backup repository in our next port.

To get HPE StoreOnce Catalyst -1TB free, please go to link

Enjoy!