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VMware
- To add additional storage for your Storage Sync appliance, you'll need to turn off the virtual appliance. Once it shuts down, click Edit Virtual Machine Settings and click Hard Disk from the list to add an additional Hard Disk. The hard disk type must be SCSI.
- Once the new virtual disk is in place, turn on the Storage Sync or Smart Cache appliance. This additional virtual hard disk will act as an extended storage device.
Ensure that you ADD a new virtual disk instead of expanding the already existing one. Do not expand the volume, as the device may not recognize the change.
Hyper-V
Once the VM has been successfully deployed, the user must attach at least one extra virtual disk to the VM. This virtual disk will act as the storage volume for Storage Sync. The virtual disk type must be SCSI, and the recommended size of the disk is the amount of data that will be stored on this Storage Sync Appliance.
- Highlight SCSI Controller, select Hard Drive, and click Add.
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Select Virtual hard disk, click New, and then click Next.
- Select VHDX and click Next.
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Select a Disk Type and click Next.
- Note: Please refer to the Microsoft TechNet article for more information about Planning for Disks and Storage.
- Customers should always select Fixed Size as the option to detect the newly attached disk on Storage Sync VM. If any other option is selected, then, it won't be detected and will be unsupported.
- Note: Please refer to the Microsoft TechNet article for more information about Planning for Disks and Storage.
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Enter the name of the data disk and the location for the VHDX and click Next.
- Note: Use the same Virtual Hard Disk location that was used to store the OS disk in Step 10 to keep the VM contents in one location.
- Note: Use the same Virtual Hard Disk location that was used to store the OS disk in Step 10 to keep the VM contents in one location.
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Select the Create a new blank virtual disk, enter the size of the VHDX, and click Next.
- There is a total storage limit of 16TB per instance of Storage Sync that the user deploys; the virtual disks can be allocated in increments of 4TB up to the limit of 16TB. Deploy more than one Storage Sync VMs to access more than 16TB of storage at a specific office location.
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Note: When deploying multiple virtual disks, please consider hardware performance of each virtual hard drive. Also pay attention to the LUN/RAID configuration of the storage system. It might be prudent to segment the Virtual Disks to maximize I/O performance of the storage configuration.
- Click Finish to create the VHDX. This will bring the user back to Hyper-V Manager.
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